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Retraction: Geo-Archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia

Archaeological Prospection, 2024. Archaeological Prospection 31(2), 199.

The retraction notice by Wiley and the journal's co-editors-in-chief. It finds a major error not caught in peer review: the radiocarbon dates came from soil samples not associated with any artefacts or features that could be reliably interpreted as anthropogenic, so the interpretation of a pyramid built 9,000 or more years ago is incorrect.

MYS0D32CBK250HV · mystery · click to copyMGunung PadangArticleCopy of Retraction notice for the 2023 Archaeological Prospection paperdoi: 10.1002/arp.1932Checked against the original0

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The authoritative statement of why the 2023 paper was withdrawn.

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Archaeological Prospection (2024). Retraction: Geo-Archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia. Archaeological Prospection 31(2), 199. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1932
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