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Grape remains and direct radiocarbon dating: a disconcerting experience from El Prado, Murcia, Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Diego Rivera Núñeź
Affiliation:
Departmento de Botánica y Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Michael J. Walker
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Antropología, Departmento de Biología Animal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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Footnotes

More on the troubling matter of how grape pips may move about in deposits that appear securely stratified, and on the doubts this may spread.

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