Abstract

Our understanding of prehistory is increasingly conditioned by absolute dates, particularly radiocarbon age determinations. Sample selection and date interpretation procedures are therefore important to productive archaeological research. Guidelines for those procedures are described and illustrated with archaeological examples from the Lower Mississippi Valley. Recommendations are made for the improved interpretability and reliability of absolute dates from archaeological contexts.

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