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Corrected Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, 3904–3203 Cal BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Arie F M de Jong ,
Willem G Mook  and
Bernd Becker
Arie F M de Jong*
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen, The Netherlands
Willem G Mook
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen, The Netherlands
Bernd Becker
Affiliation:
Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, ERG
*
∗ Present address: R van de Graaf Laboratorium, RU Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Since our publication of the high-precision calibration curve for the larger part of the 4th millennium BC (de Jong, Becker & Mook, 1986), we found that the dendrochronologic scale (cal bc) needs a correction of 26 years. Instead of using the zero-point of the Niederwill chronology (4039 bc) which was floating at the time, our dendrochronologic scale was erroneously based on the zero-point of the Hohenheim master chronology, which, in its 1986 stage, extended to 4065 bc.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 1989 , pp. 201 - 205
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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