Sample: GrA-21493

Laboratory: Groningen Accelerator

BP: 4740 Std: 50

Delta 13C value -22.1 Delta 13C standard deviation None given

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

Feature Type: rockshelter/cave Feature: bone from floor of unexcavated cave

Culture: Neolithic Phase: n/a

Site: Knocknarea Cave Country Subdivision: Sligo Country: Ireland

Approved: true Right: public

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).

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