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Title: Radiocarbon Dates from Iron Age Gordion are Confounded
Author(s): KEENAN, Douglas J.
Journal: Ancient West & East
Volume: 3    Issue: 1   Date: 2004   
Pages: 100-103
DOI: 10.2143/AWE.3.1.3291940

Abstract :
Radiocarbon dates from Iron Age Gordion have been claimed to require a destruction date for the site that is at least a century earlier than the conventionally-accepted date. Herein, it is shown that the radiocarbon dates have severe problems, due to well-known atmospheric variations, and that these problems imply the claim is invalid.

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