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 …

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) was born in the late 1970s, when it was realized at
nuclear physics laboratories that the accelerator systems can be used as a sensitive mass …

Radiocarbon (14C) ages cannot provide absolutely dated chronologies for archaeological
or paleoenvironmental studies directly but must be converted to calendar age equivalents …

The Levant-modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine-is one of the
most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated …

To create a reliable radiocarbon calibration curve, one needs not only high-quality data but
also a robust statistical methodology. The unique aspects of much of the calibration data …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

The curves recommended for calibrating radiocarbon (14C) dates into absolute dates have
been updated. For calibrating atmospheric samples from the Northern Hemisphere, the new …

A comprehensive record (WHV2020) of explosive volcanic eruptions in the last 11,000 years
is reconstructed from the West Antarctica Ice Sheet Divide deep ice core (WDC). The …

From its inception as a scientific discipline, tree-ring research has been used as a trans-
disciplinary tool for dating and environmental reconstruction. Tree-ring chronologies in some …

Radiocarbon calibration is necessary to correct for variations in atmospheric radiocarbon
over time. The IntCal working group has developed an updated and extended radiocarbon …