14C dates for the Kyrenia Ship.

The gray-shaded data are not used in the analyses reported in this paper. The dates marked * are not employed as they clearly are either contaminated with PEG or are old wood (see main text). The two dates marked § have very low carbon content (13C value of -26.69‰ whereas all GrM samples on the same wood lie between -21.22‰ to 22.35‰. Thus these two samples are not used. References are given for 14C dates previously published: R13 [30] Lawn (1971); R24 = [31] Burleigh et al. (1982); R29 = [32] Ambers et al. (1987). These dates are not employed in the analysis. The other dates are published here for the first time. X dates from the ORAU are dates not given an OxA code and regarded as potentially suspect because of issues recognized in the pretreatment and dating process. We do not use them in the analysis. It is impossible to distinguish Pinus brutia from Pinus halepensis based solely on wood anatomy [33], so BM-1639R is best regarded as either Pinus halepensis or Pinus brutia. Clearly there is something amiss with the δ13C measurement reported for P-1621 –unless this is simply a typo (for e.g. -26.48‰). If this stated implausible δ13C value was however employed in calculating the reported 14C age, then the originally measured 14C age was even more recent [34] and so further discordant from the other dates on the almond samples, and this uncertainty over information renders this date suspect. OxA δ13C values ±0.3‰; Groningen δ13C values ±0.15‰.