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Synchronising radiocarbon dating and the Egyptian historical chronology by improved sample selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M.W. Dee ,
J.M. Rowland ,
T.F.G. Higham ,
A.J. Shortland ,
F. Brock ,
S.A. Harris  and
C. Bronk Ramsey
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Egypt has some of the oldest written records and extended lists of named rulers. But radiocarbon dates have only fulfilled expectations 66 per cent of the time. So why haven&t the two types of dating made a better match? The authors provide a dozen excellent reasons, which will sound the alarm among researchers well beyond Dynastic Egypt.

Keywords

EgyptDynastic rulersradiocarbonsampling
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Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 333 , September 2012 , pp. 868 - 883
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2012 

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