The Radiocarbon Method of Age Determination

Bibliographic Data

ID2561767
AuthorsWallace S Broecker (0000-0003-4816-0903, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, corresponding author), J Laurence Kulp (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Year1956
Volume22
Issue1
Pages1-11
Publication date1956-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/276163
OpenAlexW2325254259
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Five years after the first publication of age measurements by the radiocarbon method (Arnold and Libby 1951) the method has been established as a powerful technique in the study of archaeology. Lists of radiocarbon dates have been published by a number of laboratories (Libby 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955; Kulp 1951, 1952; Broecker and Kulp 1956; Suess 1954; Ruben and Suess 1955; Blau, Deevey, and Gross 1953; Preston, Person, and Deevey 1955; Ralph 1955; Anderson, Levi, and Tauber 1953). A few scientists feel that the radiocarbon dates contradict archaeological or geological theories which they regard as wellfounded and have suggested that because of this the method is invalid

Archaeology · Geography · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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