Theme:
1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Radiocarbon Dating and Archaeology
Content:
Chronologies are essential for most archaeological studies, and over the past seven decades radiocarbon dating has become one of the most popular dating tools in the archaeological research. From the first archaeological radiocarbon dates in the 1950s, radiocarbon dating techniques and methods have undergone huge changes, including the development of radiocarbon dating of ever smaller samples using accelerator mass spectrometry, advances in radiocarbon dating and calibration, and numerical techniques to incorporate multiple dates together with additional information such as stratigraphical ordering within archaeological excavations, or additional types of relative or absolute dating information such as dendrochronology, tephra layers or archaeological information. This session will invite talks and posters on the history of radiocarbon dating and calibration (including single-year calibration data), method development including pretreatment and dating of a range of materials, quality control, lab intercomparisons, treatment of multiple dating sources, and environmental or archaeological case studies with a focus on radiocarbon dating.
Keywords:
Radiocarbon dating, Radiocarbon calibration, Chronology
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Maarten Blaauw (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Tim Heaton (United Kingdom) 2
Sturt Manning (United States) 3
Affiliations:
1. Queen's University Belfast
2. University of Leeds
3. Cornell University
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