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An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin
Bryan Walsh, Larry Schwalbe, 2020. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29: 102015.
Re-runs the statistics cited in the 1989 report. The Shroud data are heterogeneous while the three controls are not; proposes two causes, a roughly linear dependence of the dates on sample position (a variation in isotopic composition) or differences in the laboratories' cleaning, and suggests experiments to tell them apart.
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An independent statistical audit, by a STURP veteran, of the 1988 result.
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Walsh, B., & Schwalbe, L. (2020). An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29: 102015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102015
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Walsh, Bryan and Larry Schwalbe. “An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29: 102015 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102015.