Author
Baillie, M. G. L.Issue Date
1990-01-01Keywords
comparisonfossil wood
review
England
accuracy
errors
tree rings
archaeology
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Holocene
techniques
Europe
Western Europe
Cenozoic
Quaternary
geochronology
C 14
carbon
dates
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
absolute age
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Baillie, M. G. L. (1990). Checking back on an assemblage of published radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon, 32(3), 361-366.Journal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the International Workshop on Intercomparison of Radiocarbon Laboratories.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
It is clear that radiocarbon researchers take a forward view towards the improvement of accuracy and precision in dating. Unfortunately, archaeologists base much of their research on the published dates produced in the past. Archaeologists and other users of radiocarbon dates should understand the limitations associated with past dates. This article addresses these limitations by looking at a large number of routine radiocarbon dates associated with a block of English tree-ring chronologies, the true ages of which are now known within close limits. My conclusion supports the idea of global multiplication factors as proposed by the International Study Group (1982).Type
Proceedingstext
Language
enISSN
0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200013011