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Archaeological results from accelerator dating : research contributions drawing on radiocarbon dates produced by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator based on papers presented at the SERC sponsored conference 'Results and prospects of accelerator dating' held in Oxford in October 1985 / edited by J.A.J. Gowlett and R.E.M. Hedges.

Contributor(s): Gowlett, John | Hedges, Robert E. M | Conference on Results and Prospects of Accelerator Dating (1985 : Oxford, Oxfordshire)Material type: TextTextSeries: Monograph (University of Oxford. Committee for Archaeology) ; no. 11.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. 1986. Description: 170 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 0947816119 (pbk.)Subject(s): Archaeological dating | Mass spectrometry | Archaeological dating -- Congresses | Mass spectrometry -- Congresses | Radiocarbon dating -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedingsLOC classification: CC78 | .A669 1986
Contents:
Plant and animal domestication and the origins of agriculture : the contribution of radiocarbon accelerator dating / D.R. Harris -- Seeds of discontent : accelerator dates on some charred plant remains from the Kebaran and Natufian cultures / A.J. Legge -- New radiocarbon dates for early sheep at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria / A.J. Legge and P. Rowley-Conwy -- New radiocarbon dates for two Mesolithic burials in Denmark / S.H. Andersen [and others] -- Direct dates for the fossil hominid record / C. Stringer -- Problems in dating the early human settlement of the Americas / J.A.J. Gowlett -- Lessons of context and contamination in dating the Upper Palaeolithic / J.A.J. Gowlett and R.E.M. Hedges -- Radiocarbon accelerator dating in the earlier Upper Palaeolithic / P.A. Mellars and H.M. Bricker -- A.M.S. results from Cheddar Gorge -- trodden and untrodden 'lifeways' / R.M. Jacobi -- Dating late Devensian-early Flandrian barbed points / J. Cook and R.N.E. Barton --^
Radiocarbon dates from the Pitstone soil at Pitstone, Buckinghamshire / J.G. Evans -- Complementarity of conventional and accelerator dating : examples in Pleistocene extinctions / R. Burleigh -- Dating results from Palaeolithic sites and palaeoenvironments in Epirus (north-west Greece) / G.N. Bailey [and others] -- Radiocarbon accelerator dates for Upper Palaeolithic sites in European U.S.S.R. / O. Soffer -- Prospects for dating Neolithic sites and monuments in the Cotswolds and adjacent areas / T.C. Darvill -- Radiocarbon dating for the Giants' Hills 2 Long Barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire / J.G. Evans and D.D.A. Simpson -- Radiocarbon dating of Hazleton north chambered tomb : a preliminary statement / A. Saville -- Radiocarbon and the cursus problem / R. Bradley -- Radiocarbon : a means to understanding the role of Bronze Age metalwork / S. Needham -- Methodological issues in the study of Bronze Age chronology / R. Bradley --^
The terminology of time / R. Gillespie and J.A.J. Gowlett -- The future prospects of accelerator dating / R.E.M. Hedges.
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Includes bibliographies.

Plant and animal domestication and the origins of agriculture : the contribution of radiocarbon accelerator dating / D.R. Harris -- Seeds of discontent : accelerator dates on some charred plant remains from the Kebaran and Natufian cultures / A.J. Legge -- New radiocarbon dates for early sheep at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria / A.J. Legge and P. Rowley-Conwy -- New radiocarbon dates for two Mesolithic burials in Denmark / S.H. Andersen [and others] -- Direct dates for the fossil hominid record / C. Stringer -- Problems in dating the early human settlement of the Americas / J.A.J. Gowlett -- Lessons of context and contamination in dating the Upper Palaeolithic / J.A.J. Gowlett and R.E.M. Hedges -- Radiocarbon accelerator dating in the earlier Upper Palaeolithic / P.A. Mellars and H.M. Bricker -- A.M.S. results from Cheddar Gorge -- trodden and untrodden 'lifeways' / R.M. Jacobi -- Dating late Devensian-early Flandrian barbed points / J. Cook and R.N.E. Barton --^

Radiocarbon dates from the Pitstone soil at Pitstone, Buckinghamshire / J.G. Evans -- Complementarity of conventional and accelerator dating : examples in Pleistocene extinctions / R. Burleigh -- Dating results from Palaeolithic sites and palaeoenvironments in Epirus (north-west Greece) / G.N. Bailey [and others] -- Radiocarbon accelerator dates for Upper Palaeolithic sites in European U.S.S.R. / O. Soffer -- Prospects for dating Neolithic sites and monuments in the Cotswolds and adjacent areas / T.C. Darvill -- Radiocarbon dating for the Giants' Hills 2 Long Barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire / J.G. Evans and D.D.A. Simpson -- Radiocarbon dating of Hazleton north chambered tomb : a preliminary statement / A. Saville -- Radiocarbon and the cursus problem / R. Bradley -- Radiocarbon : a means to understanding the role of Bronze Age metalwork / S. Needham -- Methodological issues in the study of Bronze Age chronology / R. Bradley --^

The terminology of time / R. Gillespie and J.A.J. Gowlett -- The future prospects of accelerator dating / R.E.M. Hedges.