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Chronology of a West Mexican Shaft-tomb

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FURST has recently suggested a tentative date of about A.D. 250 for one phase of the shaft-tomb complex found in the Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima area of Western Mexico1,2. The suggested age of the tomb complex was based on radiocarbon measurements of three marine shell artefacts from one looted shaft-tomb (UCLA-593A-C. Additional information is now available which allows a more comprehensive discussion of the chronology of this tomb.

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    S. V. LONG

  2. Department of Anthropology and Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles

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LONG, S., TAYLOR, R. Chronology of a West Mexican Shaft-tomb. Nature 212, 651–652 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212651a0

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