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RADIOCARBON DATING AND DIET: THE JIAOJIA SITE IN CHINA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2020

Fen Wang ,
Chao Yuan  and
Shiling Yuan Open the ORCID record for Shiling Yuan [Opens in a new window]
Fen Wang
Affiliation:
School of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan250100, China
Chao Yuan
Affiliation:
School of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan250100, China
Shiling Yuan*
Affiliation:
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan250100, China
*
*Corresponding author. Email: shilingyuan@sdu.edu.cn.
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Abstract

The Jiaojia site is the earliest city in the Haidai area of China, about 5000 years old. To obtain more accurately the beginning and end of this site, radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (14C AMS) measurements, along with stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data, were collected from 13 bone samples. According to the measured dates, human diet was dominated by C4-based plants, and the Jiaojia site appeared before 2900 BC.

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Dawenkou culturehuman dietJiaojia siteradiocarbon dating
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Radiocarbon , Volume 62 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 1515 - 1523
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