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Radiocarbon dating of the Linear Pottery culture: the contribution of cereal and bone samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alasdair Whittle*
Affiliation:
School of History and Archaeology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff CF1 3XU

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Radiocarbon dating has not had an easy time with the Linearbandkeramik Kultur, the early Neolithic of the loess plains of central Europe. First-generation radiocarbon dates, establishing a ‘long’ chronology for European prehistory, were unwelcome as making LBK impossibly old. Newer dates, now in general harmony with the rest of Europe, are nevertheless in a less clear order than one would hope.

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