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The use of percussion drilling to obtain core samples from rock-shelter deposits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Geoff Bailey  and
Gwyn Thomas
Geoff Bailey*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
Gwyn Thomas*
Affiliation:
Kingswood, Mynydd-y-Garreg, Dyfed SA15 4RA
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Abstract

How many excavators of deep palaeolithic sites, especially in caves or rock-shelters, dig with any clear knowledge of how deep the deposits they are working in actually are, or of the ages of the lower portions? Here an alternative is offered to the traditional approach by a ‘deep sounding’ of conventional excavation. A crucial element to the strategy at Klithi is the possibility of carbon-dating, by accelerator, samples of the small size commonly obtained from a drilled core.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 233 , November 1987 , pp. 433 - 439
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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