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

If radiocarbon measurements are to be used at all for chronological purposes, we have to
use statistical methods for calibration. The most widely used method of calibration can be …

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 …

Bayesian methods are now widely used for analysing radiocarbon dates. We find that the
non‐informative priors in use in the literature generate a bias towards wider date ranges …

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

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

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 …

Archaeologists and demographers increasingly employ aggregations of published
radiocarbon (14 C) dates as demographic proxies summarizing changes in human activity in …