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MacPherson (AhHa-21) and Cleveland (AhHb-7): Two Cases Demonstrating The Benefits and Challenges of Radiocarbon Dating on Sixteenth-Century Iroquoian Sites (2022)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Radiocarbon dating on sixteenth-century archaeological sites can be challenging. On its own, radiocarbon dating this century can be imprecise, owing to a reversal and plateau in the radiocarbon calibration curve ca. AD 1480-1630. Advances in Bayesian Chronological modeling, including the use of charcoal as terminus post quem (TPQ) and internal site sequences, have helped to overcome much...