Marine Turtle Bones From an Archaeological Site in Polynesia Yield Reliable Age Determinations

Abstract

The following list of dates was obtained in a joint German-Greek project to' establish a radiocarbon dating laboratory in the National Research Centre for Physical Sciences "Demokritos," Athens, Greece.l Although our initial aim in selecting these samples was to study laboratory
procedures, we found that when the dates were arranged in stratigraphic order they provided a chronological framework for Thessalian and northern Macedonian site of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages (Kotsakis et al 1989; Papanthimou & Papasteriou 1987a).