Radiocarbon date frequency distributions and archaeological site counts are two popular
proxies used to investigate prehistoric demography, following the assumption that variations …

Archaeologists now routinely use summed radiocarbon dates as a measure of past
population size, yet few have coupled these measures to theoretical expectations about …

Sixty years ago, the advent of radiocarbon dating rewrote archaeological chronologies
around the world. Forty years ago, the advent of calibration signaled the death knell of the …

This chapter is an account of the experiences of the two authors in routinely applying
Bayesian statistics to sets of radiocarbon dates. Whereas Buck (Chapter 1) gives an account …

The Bayesian statistical framework now offers an integrated approach to the interpretation of
groups of related archaeological radiocarbon determinations. This increased interpretive …

For many years, archaeologists have postulated that the numbers of various artefact types
found within excavated features should give insight about their relative dates of deposition …

ABSTRACT Our paper (Attenbrow and Hiscock 2015) raised serious concerns about the use
of radiocarbon dates (sum probability distributions) as evidence of ancient demography …

With the advent of the high precision radiocarbon calibration curve there is an increasing
demand from archaeologists for results, previously reported on the radiocarbon scale, to be …

It is now three decades since Waterbolk introduced evaluation criteria to 14C chronology.
Despite this, and other subsequent attempts to introduce quality control in the use of 14C …

Temporal frequency distributions of radiocarbon ages from archaeological sites can be used
as a proxy record for human paleodemography after correction for taphonomic bias, or the …