Award of Research for Carbon Dating Charcoal Samples
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Creator: Creole Foundation
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1957
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 08, Image No. SIA_000095_B57_F08_001
Gordon Hough, U.S. representative of Creole Foundation listens as Dr. Betty J. Meggers, research associate, Division of Archeology, and Secretary Leonard Carmichael discuss charcoal samples from stratigraphic excavation of early Indian cultures in Venezuela, as Dr. Clifford Evans, associate curator, Division of Archeology, looks on. The discussion followed presentation of a check by Hough to the Smithsonian for research in the dating of the Venezuelan samples by radioactive carbon-14.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 08, Image No. SIA_000095_B57_F08_001
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