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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kuzmin, Yaroslav V

Titel

The older, the better? On the radiocarbon dating of Upper Palaeolithic burials in Northern Eurasia and beyond

Ist Teil von

• Antiquity, 2019-08, Vol.93 (370), p.1061-1071

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The reliability of radiocarbon dates for Palaeolithic human burials is of utmost importance for prehistoric archaeologists. Recently obtained dates for several such burials in central Russia raise important interrelated issues concerning site taphonomy and the precise radiocarbondating technique employed, with implications for the 'true' age of the burials. A critical review of the dating of the Sungir and Kostenki burials calls into question the reliability of employing ultrafiltration or single amino acids for the radiocarbon dating of Upper Palaeolithic bones.