Word: suess
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Before the Pyramids. Working with hundreds of ancient wood samples, Geochemist Hans Suess of the University of California at San Diego recalibrated archaeological ages derived by carbon 14 dating in all parts of the world. His corrections did not affect the commonly accepted dates of Near East events and artifacts, which have been largely deduced from ancient calendars. But they did show that carbon-14-based European dates before 1500 B.C. must be adjusted by the addition of as many as 700 years...