[HTML][HTML] Statistical inference of prehistoric demography from frequency distributions of radiocarbon dates: a review and a guide for the perplexed

ER Crema - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022 - Springer
The last decade saw a rapid increase in the number of studies where time–frequency
changes of radiocarbon dates have been used as a proxy for inferring past population …

Archaeological applications of radiocarbon chronologies and statistical models: Dating the Viking Age settlement of Iceland (Landnám)

MME Schmid - 2018 - opinvisindi.is
This thesis aims to refine the accuracy and precision of radiocarbon (14C) datasets in order
to better understand the timing of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental events relating …

We're all cultural historians now: Revolutions in understanding archaeological theory and scientific dating

S Griffiths - Radiocarbon, 2017 - cambridge.org
Radiocarbon dating has had profound implications for archaeological understanding. These
have been identified as various “revolutions,” with the latest—Bayesian chronological …

The potential significance of dietary offsets for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates: an archaeologically significant example from medieval Norwich

A Bayliss, ES Popescu, N Beavan-Athfield… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
The increasing application of the Bayesian approach for the interpretation of radiocarbon
dates over the past decade has led to the production of more precise chronologies for …

Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates

ER Crema, A Bevan, S Shennan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates are an increasingly popular means
by which to reconstruct prehistoric population dynamics, enabling more thorough cross …

[HTML][HTML] Parsing prehistoric patterns: Prospects and limitations of a big radiocarbon dataset for understanding the impact of climate on Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic …

PW Hoebe, JHM Peeters, S Arnoldussen - Journal of Archaeological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hunter-gatherer populations in northwest Europe were variably affected by Late Glacial and
Early Holocene climate fluctuations and their effects on sea level and the environment. We …

Challenges in sample processing within radiocarbon dating and their impact in 14C-dates-as-data studies

L Becerra-Valdivia, R Leal-Cervantes, R Wood… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
For decades, researchers have employed sets of radiocarbon dates to reconstruct trends in
ancient human populations. The overarching assumption in this analysis is that the …

Recent developments in calibration for archaeological and environmental samples

J Van der Plicht, CB Ramsey, TJ Heaton, EM Scott… - …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The curves recommended for calibrating radiocarbon (14C) dates into absolute dates have
been updated. For calibrating atmospheric samples from the Northern Hemisphere, the new …

Dates and demography? The need for caution in using radiometric dates as a robust proxy for prehistoric population change

P Hiscock, V Attenbrow - Archaeology in Oceania, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Our paper (Attenbrow and Hiscock 2015) raised serious concerns about the use
of radiocarbon dates (sum probability distributions) as evidence of ancient demography …

Estimating radiocarbon calibration curves

PG Blackwell, CE Buck - 2008 - projecteuclid.org
In addition to being crucial to the establishment of archaeological chronologies, radiocarbon
dating is vital to the establishment of time lines for many Holocene and late Pleistocene …