Antwerp University Radiocarbon Dates II

Language acquisition Steven Gillis , University of Antwerp

Award of the University of Antwerp

Doctor Honoris Causa because of his international contribution to and development of Quantitative Pathology. The official ceremony took place on 26 May 2000 in the Aula Magna of the University of Antwerp.

Bio Imaging Lab University of Antwerp

Radiocarbon dates on bones of extinct birds from Hawaii.

Bones from a stratified sedimentary deposit in the Puu Naio Cave site on Maui, Hawaiian Islands, reveal the late Holocene extinction of 19 species of birds. The age of the sediment and associated fauna was determined by direct radiocarbon dating (tandem particle accelerator-mass spectrometer; TAMS) of amino acids extracted from bones weighing as little as 450 mg. The 14C dates indicate that sed...

Some Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Southern Africa Author(s):

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