Fingerprints and age models for widespread New Zealand tephra marker beds erupted since 30,000 years ago: a framework for NZ-INTIMATE

DJ Lowe, PAR Shane, BV Alloway… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The role of tephras in the NZ-INTIMATE project is a critical one because most high-
resolution palaeoclimatic records are linked and dated by one or more tephra layers. In this …

Radiocarbon: a chronological tool for the recent past

Q Hua - Quaternary Geochronology, 2009 - Elsevier
The past few hundred years have seen large fluctuations in atmospheric 14C concentration.
In part, these have been the result of natural factors, including the climatic changes of the …

Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates

CB Ramsey - Radiocarbon, 2009 - cambridge.org
If radiocarbon measurements are to be used at all for chronological purposes, we have to
use statistical methods for calibration. The most widely used method of calibration can be …

Radiocarbon dating: revolutions in understanding

C Bronk Ramsey - Archaeometry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Towards high-precision AMS: progress and limitations

CB Ramsey, T Higham, P Leach - Radiocarbon, 2004 - cambridge.org
Precision and accuracy in accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating relies on the
systematic reduction of errors at all stages of the dating process, from sampling to AMS …

Developments in the calibration and modeling of radiocarbon dates

CB Ramsey, M Dee, S Lee, T Nakagawa, RA Staff - Radiocarbon, 2010 - cambridge.org
Calibration is a core element of radiocarbon dating and is undergoing rapid development on
a number of different fronts. This is most obvious in the area of 14C archives suitable for …

Radiocarbon and geologic evidence reveal Ilopango volcano as source of the colossal 'mystery'eruption of 539/40 CE

RA Dull, JR Southon, S Kutterolf, KJ Anchukaitis… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Ilopango volcano (El Salvador) erupted violently during the Maya Classic Period
(250–900 CE) in a densely-populated and intensively-cultivated region of the southern …

Second Intermediate Period date for the Thera (Santorini) eruption and historical implications

SW Manning - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The historical relevance of the Thera (Santorini) volcanic eruption is unclear because of
major dating uncertainty. Long placed~ 1500 BCE and during the Egyptian New Kingdom …

[LIVRE][B] Wetland archaeology and beyond: theory and practice

F Menotti - 2012 - books.google.com
Despite being one of the most successful branches of mainstream archaeology, wetland
archaeology, as an academic discipline, is still relatively unknown. We might have all heard …

IntCal20 tree rings: an archaeological SWOT analysis

A Bayliss, P Marshall, MW Dee, M Friedrich… - …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We undertook a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of
Northern Hemisphere tree-ring datasets included in IntCal20 in order to evaluate their …