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FOSSIL BONES FROM THE NORTH SEA: RADIOCARBON AND STABLE ISOTOPE (13C/15N) DATA.
- Source :
- Radiocarbon; Jun2022, Vol. 64 Issue 3, p633-668, 36p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The North Sea is considered a unique heritage site that yielded a huge amount of zoological and archaeological data. More than 200 palaeozoological and archaeological fossil bone samples from the North Sea bed are dated by <superscript>14</superscript>C. About 2/3 of these dated bones are Pleistocene in age; the majority of the bones are from extinct species (in particular woolly mammoth); about 1/3 of the sample date to the Holocene. The presented dataset is important in its kind, but interpretation is limited because of a lack of context of the finds. The stable isotopes (<superscript>13</superscript>C, <superscript>15</superscript>N) of the dated samples provide additional information on palaeoenvironmental conditions and dietary habits in the past. We present primarily a Groningen list of data; a few fossils dated in other laboratories are included for completeness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00338222
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Radiocarbon
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157433454
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2022.9