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Personal Recollections of a Good Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Erle Nelson
Erle Nelson*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Email: dewart@sfu.ca
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Abstract

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This is the written version of a retrospective talk given at the 20th Radiocarbon Conference in Hawaii, 2009. As requested, this is not a scholarly work, but simply a personal, subjective account of how a good experiment in the field of radiocarbon dating came about. It differs from the talk itself only in that I have eliminated some sideline commentary so that I can add a few thoughts originally intended for the end, when I had talked myself out of time.

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Type
Invited Talks
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 2: 20th Int. Radiocarbon Conference Proceedings , 2010, pp. 219 - 227
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

References

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