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Professor Harrison said radiocarbon dating was overrated for coastal sites but I just got 3,400-year-old charcoal from a shell midden in Galway that matched perfectly
After he told our field school that marine reservoir effects made carbon dates useless near the sea, I spent six months fighting my advisor to get the samples run anyway and now I have the only absolute dates for that entire region, has anyone else dealt with a senior archaeologist who dismisses whole methods based on old textbook warnings?
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kelly.nora3mo ago
I actually used to AGREE with him until this changed my mind.
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keithbennett3mo ago
Funny you say that, @kelly.nora. I had the same thing happen with a podcast I liked - one episode just flipped my whole view on it. Now I can't even listen to the old stuff the same way.
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