Double the dates and go for Bayes—Impacts of model choice, dating density and quality on chronologies

M Blaauw, JA Christen, KD Bennett… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Reliable chronologies are essential for most Quaternary studies, but little is known about
how age-depth model choice, as well as dating density and quality, affect the precision and …

The early Lateglacial re-colonization of Britain: new radiocarbon evidence from Gough's Cave, southwest England

RM Jacobi, TFG Higham - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Gough's Cave is still Britain's most significant Later Upper Palaeolithic site. New ultrafiltered
radiocarbon determinations on bone change our understanding of its occupation, by …

Bayesian ranking of biochemical system models

V Vyshemirsky, MA Girolami - Bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: There often are many alternative models of a biochemical system. Distinguishing
models and finding the most suitable ones is an important challenge in Systems Biology, as …

All age–depth models are wrong, but are getting better

M Trachsel, RJ Telford - The Holocene, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The construction of accurate age–depth relationships and a realistic assessment of their
uncertainties is one of the fundamental prerequisites for comparing and correlating late …

The chronology of Neolithic dispersal in Central and Eastern Europe

P Dolukhanov, A Shukurov, D Gronenborn… - Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
We analyze statistically representative samples of radiocarbon dates from key Early
Neolithic sites in Central Europe belonging to the Linear Pottery Ceramic Culture (LBK), and …

On being a good Bayesian

CE Buck, B Meson - World Archaeology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Bayesianism is fast becoming the dominant paradigm in archaeological chronology
construction. This paradigm shift has been brought about in large part by widespread access …

Bayesian tools for tephrochronology

CE Buck, TFG Higham, DJ Lowe - The Holocene, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
It is suggested that Bayesian statistical methods for radiocarbon data interpretation, already
widely used in archaeology, also have potential to improve the dating of tephra layers and …

[HTML][HTML] Refining the chronology of North America's copper using traditions: A macroscalar approach via Bayesian modeling

MR Bebber, B Buchanan, J Holland-Lulewicz - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
North America's ancient copper use, predicted to originate as early as 9000 cal BP,
represents the earliest use of native copper for utilitarian tool production in the world …

How many dates do i need?: Using simulations to determine robust age estimations of archaeological contexts

J Holland-Lulewicz, BT Ritchison - Advances in Archaeological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
As the use of large-scale radiocarbon datasets becomes more common and applications of
Bayesian chronological modeling become a standard aspect of archaeological practice, it is …

New radiocarbon calibration software

M Jones, G Nicholls - Radiocarbon, 2002 - cambridge.org
We have developed a software utility,“DateLab”, for conventional radiocarbon age (CRA)
calibration and Bayesian analysis of CRAs. The current version has a smaller range of …