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Radiocarbon Sample Information

Gd-5713 MAO 1990/3    Age:  5240 ± 60 BP 
Sample name:  MAO 1990/3
Submitter:  Krzyżaniak Lech
Institution:
 
 
 Muzeum Archeologiczne
 Pałac Gorkow
 ul. Wodna 27   61-781 Poznań

Collector:
Date of collection:
 Krzyżaniak Lech
 1990

Additional information:  From depth 2.5 m below the surface of sandy hill (gezira), near Grave 1930, from pure sand.
Material of sample:  fresh-water shell
Contamination:   
Type of site:  excavation
Field of study:  archaeology

Sample location:
Site name:  Minshat Abu Omar
Latitude:  30 55 00N
Longitude:  32 02 00E
Detailed description of the sample location:
Eastern Nile Delta, north of modern village Minshat Abu Omar, ca. 30 km northeast
of Faqus.
Environment description:
Late Predynastic-Early Dynastic cemetery.

References to literature:  Radiocarbon Data List XII

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