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Textiles and Radiocarbon Dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Irka Hajdas ,
Carlo Cristi ,
Georges Bonani  and
Mantana Maurer
Irka Hajdas*
Affiliation:
Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Carlo Cristi
Affiliation:
Arte Orientale Tessili, Milano, Italy, and Brussels, Belgium
Georges Bonani
Affiliation:
Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Mantana Maurer
Affiliation:
Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
*
2. Corresponding author. Email: hajdas@phys.ethz.ch.
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Abstract

Natural textiles provide suitable material for radiocarbon dating. Short-lived organic matter is usually involved and, if 14C dating is applied to pieces that are stylistically well dated, a better understanding of 14C dating of this type of material can be gained. This study presents some examples of dating that support the stylistic dates. Repeated analyses illustrate the robustness of the standard treatment applied to the textiles.

Type
Methodology: Generaland Bones
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 637 - 643
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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