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M"9F% " % " '" !" !5 Vo l 45 , N r 1 Radiocarbon 2003 CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD . iii FROM THE EDITOR . v FROM THE FORMER MANAGING EDITOR . vii ARTICLES Investigation of a Chinese Ink Rubbing by 14C AMS Analysis Hong-Chien Yuan, Walter Kutschera, Tze-Yue Lin, Peter Steier, Christof Vockenhuber, Eva Maria Wild . 1 Radiocarbon Age Offsets Between Living Organisms from the Marine and Continental Reservoir in Coastal Localities of Patagonia (Argentina) Roberto R Cordero, Héctor Panarello, Sonia Lanzelotti, Cristian M Favier Dubois . 9 Radiocarbon Dating of Individual Fatty Acids as a Tool for Refining Antarctic Margin Sediment Chronologies Naohiko Ohkouchi, Timothy I Eglinton, John M Hayes . 17 14C Chronology of Late Pleistocene–Holocene Events in the Nizhnee Priamurie (Southeast Russia) V B Bazarova, L M Mokhova, L A Orlova, M A Klimin, I G Gvozdeva . 25 Archaeology On the Coexistence of Man and Extinct Pleistocene Megafauna at Gruta del Indio (Argentina) Alejandro García . 33 El Mirón Cave and the 14C Chronology of Cantabrian Spain Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel González Morales . 41 14C Absolute Chronology of Pyramid III and the Dynastic Model at Pachacamac, Peru Adam MichczyÒski, Peter Eeckhout, Anna Pazdur . 59 Calibration High-Precision AMS 14C Results on TIRI/FIRI Turbidite Thomas P Guilderson, John R Southon, Thomas A Brown . 75 Radiocarbon Calibration for Japanese Wood Samples Minoru Sakamoto, Mineo Imamura, Johannes van der Plicht, Takumi Mitsutani, Makoto Sahara . 81 Corals and Shells Decadal Timescale Shift in the 14C Record of a Central Equatorial Pacific Coral A G Grottoli, S T Gille, E R M Druffel, R D B Dunbar . 91 Soils and Sediments Dating of Prehistoric Burial Mounds by 14C Analysis of Soil Organic Matter Fractions Søren M Kristiansen, Kristian Dalsgaard, Mads K Holst, Bent Aaby, Jan Heinemeier . 101 i NOTES & COMMENTS Balanced Window Method in 14C Liquid Scintillation Counting P Theodórsson, S Ingvarsdottir, G I Gudjonsson . 113 DATE LIST Radiocarbon Dates from Halfiah Gibli (Abadiyeh), a Predynastic Settlement in Upper Egypt Kathryn A Bard. 123 RADIOCARBON UPDATES . 131 ERRATUM . 133 ii FROM THE EDITOR In this issue, we now have a new managing editor, Mark McClure, and Agnieszka Baier continues as business manager. Kim Elliott has left the university. The cause of her departure is a beautiful daughter, Corinne. I am sure everyone wishes Kim well. Kim writes her own farewell after this editorial. It is difficult to start these comments without noting the passing of John Head this summer 2003. John’s work in the dating of sediments and studies of charcoal and cellulose are well-known. We will all remember John’s quiet demeanor and dedication to his work. Weijian Zhou, who worked closely with John for many years in Xi’an and Australia, will write an obituary for our next issue. The obituary was also presented at the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference. In this issue, we again present a selection of interesting papers in the field of radiocarbon dating. A paper by Yuan et al. discusses dating of Chinese papers and Okhouchi et al. delve into the mysteries of trying to separate (and date) fatty acids from sediments. Reservoir effects, both applied to dating (Cordero et al.) and changes in the 14C in corals (Grottoli et al.), are discussed. Papers by Bazarova et al. and Garcia are concerned with Late Pleistocene megafauna and the interaction of early man with these species. Straus and González Morales are similarly interested in the dating of early modern humans. Our remaining papers discuss archaeological issues, in Peru (MichzyÒski et al.) and prehistoric burial mounds (Kristiansen et al.), as well as a date list of an Egyptian site (Bard). Finally, we have some technical discussions on calibration for wood samples (Sakamoto et al.), the precision of AMS (Guilderson et al.), and the methodology of scintillation counting (Theodórsson et al.). I hope that this variety of topics is of interest; our next issue will focus on the Fourth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison (FIRI). I enjoyed meeting many new and old friends at the recent Radiocarbon Conference and we also look forward to the Proceedings of that conference in 2004. A J Timothy Jull v FROM THE FORMER MANAGING EDITOR Kimberley Tanner Elliott with daughter, Corinne, born in March 2003 On March 14 of this year, my husband Garnett and I became parents for the first time. The arrival of our daughter Corinne Marie marked the end of one career (at least for the time being) and the begin- ning of another. However, the journal is now in the very capable hands of Mark McClure and Agnieszka Baier. Many of you will get to meet them at the Radiocarbon Conference in New Zealand. My career at Radiocarbon spanned nearly 10 years and I am grateful to have worked with so many fascinating people from around the world during that time. Few careers provide such an opportunity. I was hired by Renee Kra in the fall of 1993 as assistant editor. In the beginning, my primary respon- sibilities were typesetting, proofing, and managing orders and subscriptions. David Sewell and I began working for the journal the same week. Renee’s energy and dedication were inspiring, and with David’s help as senior assistant editor, we modernized the journal’s equipment to create a one-stop publishing house. We acquired desktop- publishing software and graphics scanning equipment and soon after, David produced our first webpage. The only thing we lacked was the printing press. vii viii From the Former Managing Editor In the summer of 1994, I attended my first Radiocarbon Conference, which was held in Glasgow. I was pleased to work closely with the gracious organizers (Gordon Cook, Doug Harkness, Angus Mackenzie, Brian Miller, and Marian Scott). That was my first opportunity to meet the faces behind the names on all those manuscripts I’d been typesetting and mailing off. The radiocarbon commu- nity is diverse but I found everyone to be friendly and approachable. I will miss seeing so many old friends at future radiocarbon meetings. The journal faced financial trouble in 1994 as subscribing libraries began tightening their belts, and we lost a substantial number of customers. So, a few months after the Glasgow meeting, Renee was forced to lay me off and run the journal on a skeleton crew of just herself, David, and a part-time stu- dent assistant. (I found work at another university department.) Fortunately, I was able to return in the summer of 1995 after a new budget was implemented. Nineteen ninety-five was a busy year, as Renee, David, and I worked on three conference proceed- ings books at once, Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity (edited by Jeffrey S Dean, David M Meko, and Thomas W Swetnam), LSC 94 (edited by Gordon T Cook, Douglas D Harkness, Angus B Mackenzie, Brian F Miller, and E Marian Scott), and the Glasgow Radiocarbon Conference (Vol. 37, Nr. 2, 1995). In 1996, we were fortunate to bring on board Tim Jull as consulting editor. Tim was later appointed editor upon the retirement of Austin Long in 1999. Tim was joined then by Warren Beck and George Burr as associate editors (Vol. 41, Nr. 3, 1999). In 1997, David Sewell and I attended the Radiocarbon Conference in Groningen, the Netherlands. Sadly, Renee was too ill to make the trip and had to step back from the journal to look after her health. David and I prepared the Groningen proceedings issues (Vol. 40, Nr. 1–2, 1998) with the dedicated cooperation of conference organizers Wim Mook and Hans van der Plicht. Because there were so many papers, those proceedings were the first to be published in two books. Because of her medical problems, Renee retired earlier than we all expected, and in 1997 David offi- cially assumed the role of managing editor and I was promoted to senior assistant editor, and later assistant managing editor. When David relocated to Virginia in 1999, I took over as managing editor. In 2000, one of my first projects was editing the special Radiocarbon issue in honor of Renee Kra’s three decades of dedication to the journal (Vol. 42, Nr. 1, 2000). Also in 2000, Radiocarbon partnered with Catchword/Ingenta to publish the journal online. The same year, I attended my third Radiocarbon Conference, in the Judean Hills of Israel. Conference organizers Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto, and Hendrik Bruins worked tirelessly with me to pub- lish the mammoth proceedings issues (three books this time!). Assistant Editor Agnieszka Baier joined me in 2001 and put in many hours on Vol. 43, Nr. 1–3, 2001. I also had the pleasure of work- ing with Hans van der Plicht again in 1998 on the IntCal98 calibration issue, Vol. 40, Nr. 3, 1998 (he designed the Dali-esque cover art, by the way, but never got proper credit. Sorry, Hans!). Other recent projects have included a special issue with Yaroslav Kuzmin in 2002 (“Old and New World Connections,” Vol. 44, Nr. 2, 2002) and the Varve/Comparison issue, Vol. 42, Nr. 3. The folks at Radiocarbon have been kind enough to let me keep my email address [email protected], so I hope to hear from some of my old friends from time to time.