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Radiocarbon Laboratory

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Radiocarbon Sample Information

Gd-6233 MAO 1990/1    Age:  3930 ± 70 BP 
Sample name:  MAO 1990/1
Submitter:  Krzyżaniak Lech
Institution:
 
 
 Muzeum Archeologiczne
 Pałac Gorkow
 ul. Wodna 27   61-781 Poznań

Collector:
Date of collection:
 Krzyżaniak Lech
 1990

Additional information:  From wooden construction of the chamber of Grave 1590.
Material of sample:  charcoal
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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