Radiocarbon dating uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure time
and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. With a half-life of 5,700±30 years …

East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

Archaeologists have traditionally thought that the development of Maya civilization was
gradual, assuming that small villages began to emerge during the Middle Preclassic period …

Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described,
interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The …

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 …

Rapid, in-field, and non-contact isotopic analysis of solid materials is extremely important to
a large number of applications, such as nuclear nonproliferation monitoring and forensics …

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

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 …

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 …

From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central
Europe–the LBK, after the German labels Linearbandkeramik or Linienbandkeramik–are …