The Arctic Woodland Culture of the Kobuk River. J. L. GiddingsJr. Museum Monographs, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1952. ix + 143 pp., 43 figs., 46 pls. $2.50.

1956 ◽  
Vol 22 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 199-201
Author(s):  
Henry B. Collins
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
University Museum

Radiocarbon Dating in the Arctic

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (4Part1) ◽  
pp. 365-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Froelich Rainey ◽  
Elizabeth Ralph
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South America ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
America South ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

The radiocarbon laboratory, operated by the Department of Physics and the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, is concentrating its analyses in four fields of archaeology: the Middle East, Middle America, South America, and the Arctic. It is the policy of the laboratory to publish radiocarbon dates only in groups from one specific field after checks and rechecks of related materials result in a certain measure of internal consistency (Ralph 1955: 149-51; Coon and Ralph 1955: 921-2).

scholarly journals University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates III

Radiocarbon ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Ralph
Keyword(s):  
Bering Sea ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Solid Carbon ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

The radiocarbon laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania is sponsored jointly by the University Museum and the Physics Department. In this laboratory our primary function is to date archaeologic samples from those four regions of the world in which the University Museum studies are concentrated, namely, the Near East, South America, Central America, and the Arctic. Dates for sites in the first two regions are included in this list, and a long series of temple lintels from Tikal, Guatamala is now being processed. Dates for the Arctic were obtained intermittently from 1953 through 1955 (with solid-carbon counting); others, more recently. The materials for many of the Arctic dates, however, were not reliable; that is, they were physically contaminated before processing in the laboratory. We hope that better samples can be found for future Arctic dating. Our Arctic dates which now furnish tentative age ranges for Punuk, Birnirk, Kachemak Bay III, Okvik, Old Bering Sea, Ipiutak, Norton, Dorset, Kachemak Bay I, Choris, Firth River (Early Mountain Phase), Sarqaq, and Denbigh Flint Complex Periods have been submitted to American Antiquity (Rainey and Ralph, in press) along with detailed discussions of possible contaminations.

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