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Towards an absolute chronology for the Iron Age of Inner Asia

1997; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 71; Issue: 274 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003598x00085781

1745-1744

Mark E. Hall,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

For half a century now — ever since radiocarbon dating began — there have been regional reconciliations between relative chronologies and the new absolute dating. Sometimes they have been friendly, some times less so when the two schemes have not matched well. For Inner Asia — centre of the Old World — there is belatedly now the means to resolve some fundamentals.