Radiocarbon dating of two bone samples from the archaeological excavation of the farm at Ain Wassel (High Tunisian Tell). The analysed material comes from the archaeological excavation at Ain Wassel carried out by the University of Trento (Italy) and the Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunisia, under the joint direction of Mustapha Khanoussi and Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers (1994- 1996). See: http://rusafricum.org/en/thuggasurvey/home/
The samples, a pork (KIA-55574) and a chicken (KIA-55575) bone, come from a fill layer including very mixed heretogeneous material dating to the Byzantine period and adhered to the wall of a ceramic vessel (closed form in common ware).
The analysis have been carried out by the The Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research (AMS 14C Lab).
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