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

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 …

Over the last thirty years radiocarbon dating has been widely used in archaeology and
related fields to address a wide-range of chronological questions. Because of some inherent …

A recent and significant improvement in radiocarbon dating has been the increased ability of
the radiocarbon laboratories to provide results combining precision with accuracy. This …

Bayesian mathematics provides a tool for combining radiocarbon dating results on findings
from an archaeological context with independent archaeological information such as the …

Archaeologists, along with other Quaternary researchers, seldom rely upon a single
radiocarbon determination to provide an estimate of the age of the phenomenon which is the …

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 …

Archaeologists working on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i, use radiocarbon dating of samples
of organic matter found trapped in fish-pond sediments to help them to learn about the …

In recent years Bayesian exploration of radiocarbon datasets has been employed widely in
prehistoric archaeology. Pertinent especially to major biogeographic and behavioural …