Sample: GrA-2510

Laboratory: Groningen Accelerator

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BP: 4670 Std: 50

Delta 13C value -22.4 Delta 13C standard deviation None given

Sample Material: collagen, bone Sample Material Comment: human, metacarpal

Feature Type: rockshelter/cave Feature: cave containing Late Glacial and recent fauna, Mesolithic and Neolithic artefacts, Mesolithic and Neolithic human remains

Culture: Neolithic Phase: n/a

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Site: Killuragh Cave Country Subdivision: Limerick Country: Ireland

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Approved: true Right: public

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Literature:

Dowd, Marion A, The use of caves for funerary and ritual practices in Neolithic Ireland. antiquity 82 / 316, 2008, 305--317.

Whittle, Alasdair William Richardson and Healy, Frances Margaret Alton and Bayliss, Alexandra, Gathering time: dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland (2011).

Woodman, Peter and McCarthy, Margaret and Monaghan, Nigel, The Irish quaternary fauna project. Quaternary Science Reviews 16 / 2, 1997, 129--159.

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