COMMENT:Definitive history of the scientific dating of the shroud of Turin. The author, physicist Harry Gove, played a major role in developing accelerator mass spectrometry, the very precise technique used in radiocarbon dating the shroud. Gove played a role in establishing the protocols used in dating the shroud and describes how these protocols should leave little doubt about the accuracy of the thriteenth century AD date for the cloth. Gove goes on to explain why claims that the cloth was contaminated and that this produced a spuriously recent date are unfounded.
DATE:19980619
KEYWORDS:shroud
MISC:xvi+336p.
PUBLISHER:Institute of Physics Publishing
SUBMITADDR:KennyFeder@aol.com
SUBMITNAME:Ken Feder
TITLE:Relic, Icon or Hoax? Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud