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lsroute66@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> wrote:
> > *****GK: Could you direct me to a source
> describing
> > what exactly was done in the matter of this
> redating?
> > I'd appreciate this very much.
>
> "Anthony and Brown (2000) Eneolithic horse
> exploitation in the
> Eurasian steppes, ANTIQUITY 74, 75-86 has the new
> C14 dates from it.
> The original dates given for it was 3300 BC. The
> new lab dates on it
> put it up around the 1st century BC. As they note,
> it looks like it
> was a pit deposit that had nothing to do with the
> Neolithic levels of
> the site."
*****GK: Here is the address of David Anthony's site:
http://www.hartwick.edu/anthropology/anthony.htm ==
Fascinating researcher (D. Brown is his wife). The
claim is made there that "Hartwick students have done
much of the lab work associated with their research,
including work on the scanning electron microscope
facilities at Hartwick and at Cornell (a two-hour
drive from Hartwick), where they examined horse teeth
to identify bit wear � microscopic scratches caused by
ancient bits. Anthony and Brown invented this
technique to identify the bones of horses that were
used for riding or driving, and they discovered bit
wear on the teeth of a horse in Ukraine dated to 4000
BC � the earliest horse known to have been ridden
anywhere in the world."
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