Journal
ARCHAEOMETRY
Volume 61, Issue 5, Pages 1223-1231Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12467
Keywords
ANOVA; hypothesis testing; OxCal; Turin Shroud; Ward and Wilson test
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In 1988, three laboratories performed a radiocarbon analysis of the Turin Shroud. The results, which were centralized by the British Museum and published in Nature in 1989, provided 'conclusive evidence' of the medieval origin of the artefact. However, the raw data were never released by the institutions. In 2017, in response to a legal request, all raw data kept by the British Museum were made accessible. A statistical analysis of the Nature article and the raw data strongly suggests that homogeneity is lacking in the data and that the procedure should be reconsidered.
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