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 …

Bayesian chronological modelling is fast becoming the method of choice for the
interpretation of radiocarbon dates in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental studies …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Radiocarbon dates on samples susceptible to inbuilt age are common in the chronological
record of many archaeological and environmental sites. Indeed, fragments of charcoal and …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

Using a database of Australian archaeological radiocarbon dates (n= 2996), this paper
explores three key methodological issues associated with the use of summed probability …

Radiocarbon dates form the basis of many archaeological chronologies that span the last
50,000 years. Since the first studies in the early 1950s the method has changed almost …