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Dating Late-Pleistocene Events by Means of Radiocarbon
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Dating Late-Pleistocene Events by Means of Radiocarbon

  • RICHARD FOSTER FLINT1 

Nature volume 167, pages 833–836 (1951)Cite this article

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  1. For example, Arnold, J. R., and Libby, W. F., Science, 110, 678 (1949); 113, 111 (1951), and references given there.

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FLINT, R. Dating Late-Pleistocene Events by Means of Radiocarbon. Nature 167, 833–836 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167833a0

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