Overview

Radiocarbon dating covers the most recent span of geo-archaeological time, back to c.55,000 years BP. The list of applications and disciplines it can be used for is wide-ranging and burgeoning. It is used widely in dating aspects of the Earth's environmental, oceanographic and atmospheric systems. It is used as a tracer in investigating residence times of carbon in soils, rivers, oceans and lakes, and to document the movements of oceanic water and its circulation and exchange with the atmosphere. It is also used in aerosol science, and is crucial to studies of Earth's changing climate. This wide relevance of the 14C isotope means that one must be something of a polymath to understand, and it was for this reason that in 1981 the first '14C and Archaeology' Symposium was held. Its aim: to provide a wider forum for studies of prehistoric chronology than would normally be allowed at the Radiocarbon conferences. The 4th Symposium was held in Oxford in April 2002, and the proceedings that follow comprise thirty-one papers, covering archaeological dating research from the Altai to Antarctica, and from the Palaeolithic to the Medieval.

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Author:   Christopher Bronk Ramsey ,  Clare Owen ,  Tom Higham
Publisher:   Oxford University School of Archaeology
Imprint:   Oxford University School of Archaeology
Volume:   62
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.916kg
ISBN:  

9780947816650

ISBN 10:   0947816658
Pages:   359
Publication Date:   10 January 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Preface; List of participants; Radiocarbon Calibration Calibration at all ages? (J van der Plicht); Glacial radiocarbon age calibration: the calpal program (B Weninger and O Joris); Methodology Luminescence and radiocarbon dating of lake sediments from East Antarctica (M Frenchen, M J Schwab and I Sutter); Non-destructive plasma-chemical extraction of carbon from organic artefacts (K Steelman and M W Rowe); Colonisation and Extinctions Visualising the Neolithic transition in Europe (T Russell and J Steele); Colonisation of northern Eurasia by early modern humans as viewed through the evidence of radiocarbon dating (P Dolukhanov and A Shukurov); World Archaeology Human-mammoth interaction during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Yenisei River Basin (Siberia) (L A Orlova, Y V Kuzmin and V N Dementiev); AMS radiocarbon dating of micro samples from the rock paintings of Malakula (Vanuatu) (U Zoppi et al); Desert settlement in the central Negev: Wrst 14C indication of rainwater-harvesting agriculture in the Iron Age ( H J Bruins and J van der Plicht); Radiocarbon dating of the pottery artefacts from the Sejuk Neolithic site (M Youn et al); Reliability of 14C AMS dating of rat and bird bone: implications for the timing of New Zealand Holocene vertebrate extinctions (N Beavan Athfield); The chronology of the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods in the north Jordan Valley: new 14C determinations from Pella in Jordan (S Bourke et al); 14C dating of mound 24 of the kurgan group near Vinogradnoe village, Ukraine (J Gorsdorf, Y Rassamakin and A Hausler); AMS radiocarbon dating of Rattus exulans bone from the Kokohuia Site (New Zealand) (T F G Higham et al); The timing of pottery origins in the Russian Far East: 14C chronology of the earliest Neolithic complexes (Y V Kuzmin et al); AMS radiocarbon dating of resins from Spirit Cave, Thailand (C D Lampert et al); First chronological data for the unique Tsar burial mound Arzhan-2 In Tuva, central Asia (K V Chugunov et al); High Resolution Dating 14C wiggle-matching of the Ulandryk-4 (Early Iron Age, Pazyryk Cultural complex) Xoating tree-ring chronology, Altai Mountains, Siberia (I Y Slusarenko et al); Dating the king's tombs of the kingdom of Old Silla, Korea (I C Kim et al); High precision 14C dating of a Bronze Age tree-ring chronology from the pile-dwelling settlement of Montpenedre, Herault, southern France (C Oberlin, F Leroy and F Guibal); Radiocarbon and calendar chronology of Ulandryk 4 and Pazyryk 2 tombs (I Hajdas, G Bonani and M Seifert); European Archaeology Kastansss and the chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (R Jung and B Weninger); The oldest Early Neolithic (Starevo Culture) settlements in Croatia: Zadubravlje-Duine and Slavonski Brod-Galovo (I Krajcar Bronic et al); Radiocarbon and archaeological evidence for a possible climate-Induced cultural change on the Balearic Islands around 2700 BP (M van Strydonck); An improved chronology for the Neolithic of central and eastern Europe (P Dolukhanov et al); The radiocarbon chronology of the German Upper Palaeolithic: Fifteen years of cooperation with ORAU (M Street and T Terberger); Interpretation of 14C dates of the Mesolithic site of Friesack, Germany (J Gorsdorf and B Gramsch); Radiocarbon dates from the Kremlin and the 14C chronology of Iron Age and Medieval archaeological sites in Moscow (A L Alexandrovskiy et al); Dating of a medieval painting prepared on the new AMS sample Preparation lines in Lecce (M D'Elia et al); Radiocarbon dates of two urnwelds at Velzeke (Zottegem, East Flanders, Belgium) (G De Mulder and M van Strydonck); Building archaeology: the case of aghinolw Castle (MS), Italy (M Gallo).

Reviews

there is some excellent material here that deserves to be read, not only be members of the archaeological community, but also by those who are interested in the wider aspects of radiocarbon dating and its many and varied applications.' -- Mike Walker Journal of Quaternary Science 2007

there is some excellent material here that deserves to be read, not only be members of the archaeological community, but also by those who are interested in the wider aspects of radiocarbon dating and its many and varied applications.'--Mike Walker Journal of Quaternary Science (01/01/2007)

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