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Removing contaminants: a restatement of the value of isolating single compounds for AMS dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2019

Thomas F.G. Higham
Thomas F.G. Higham*
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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK (Email: thomas.higham@rlaha.ox.ac.uk)
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Antiquity , Volume 93 , Issue 370 , August 2019 , pp. 1072 - 1075
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