The earliest complex societies and a distinctive set of pan-regional social, political, and
economic institutions appeared in the southern Maya lowlands during the Preclassic period …

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 …

Radiocarbon dating has undergone a number of 'revolutions' in the past 50 years. This is in
part because it is a field in continuous development, but perhaps more because of its …

Radiocarbon dating is the most widely applied dating method in archaeology, especially in
human evolution studies, where it is used to determine the chronology of key events, such …

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

The importance of chronology is reasserted as a means to achieving history and a sense of
temporality. A range of current methods for estimating the dates and durations of …

All scientific investigations require experimentation to test hypotheses and support
interpretations. Thus, experimental studies are an indispensable aspect of investigations of …

We review the history of Bayesian chronological modeling in archaeology and demonstrate
that there has been a surge over the past several years in American archaeological …

Historians and archaeologists define primary states—" cradles of civilization" from which all
modern nation states ultimately derive—as significant territorially-based, autonomous …

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new
interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe. It combines …