Radiocarbon re-dating of contact-era Iroquoian history in northeastern North America

Sturt W. Manning; Jennifer Birch; Megan A. Conger; Michael W. Dee; Carol Griggs; Carla S. Hadden; Alan G. Hogg; Christopher Bronk Ramsey; Samantha Sanft; Peter Steier; Eva M. Wild

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav0280

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Radiocarbon re-dating of contact-era Iroquoian history in northeastern North America

Sturt W. Manning ¹,*,
Jennifer Birch ²,
Megan A. Conger ²,
Michael W. Dee³,
Carol Griggs¹,
Carla S. Hadden⁴,
Alan G. Hogg⁵,
Christopher Bronk Ramsey⁶,
Samantha Sanft⁷,
Peter Steier⁸ and
Eva M. Wild⁸

¹Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory, Department of Classics, B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
²Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 250A Baldwin Hall, Jackson Street, Athens, GA 30602-1619, USA.
³Centre for Isotope Research, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 6, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, 120 Riverbend Rd, Athens, GA 30602-4702, USA.
⁵Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.
⁶Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, Oxford University, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.
⁷Department of Anthropology, 261 McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4601, USA.
⁸University of Vienna, VERA Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, Isotope Research and Nuclear Physics, Währinger Straße 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: sm456{at}cornell.edu

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Science Advances 05 Dec 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 12, eaav0280
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0280

Sturt W. Manning

1Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory, Department of Classics, B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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Jennifer Birch

2Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 250A Baldwin Hall, Jackson Street, Athens, GA 30602-1619, USA.

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Megan A. Conger

2Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 250A Baldwin Hall, Jackson Street, Athens, GA 30602-1619, USA.

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Michael W. Dee

3Centre for Isotope Research, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 6, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands.

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Carol Griggs

1Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory, Department of Classics, B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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Carla S. Hadden

4Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, 120 Riverbend Rd, Athens, GA 30602-4702, USA.

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Alan G. Hogg

5Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.

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Christopher Bronk Ramsey

6Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, Oxford University, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.

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Samantha Sanft

7Department of Anthropology, 261 McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4601, USA.

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Peter Steier

8University of Vienna, VERA Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, Isotope Research and Nuclear Physics, Währinger Straße 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

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Eva M. Wild

8University of Vienna, VERA Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, Isotope Research and Nuclear Physics, Währinger Straße 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

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