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Revised ‘absolute’ dating of the early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, in the light of changes in the early Holocene tree-ring chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Petra Dark
Petra Dark*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA, England
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Abstract

Recent revision of the radiocarbon calibration curve for the early Holocene has implications for the ‘absolute’ date of Mesolithic sites such as Star Carr, and for their relationship to the timescale of early Holocene environmental change.

Keywords

Star Carrradiocarbon calibrationearly Mesolithicearly Holocene
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 284 , June 2000 , pp. 304 - 307
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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