Refining the Radiocarbon Time Scale

Refining the Sarliève palaeolake (France) Neolithic chronology by combining several radiocarbon approaches

Dating sedimentary series spanning the past few tens of thousands of years is often problematic due to the quality of 14C data obtained from organic matter (OM), including OM bulk. This question recently arose when establishing the chronology of the sediment infill of the Sarliève palaeolake (French Massif Central). In the studied section of the cores that covers the Neolithic, Ruppia seeds yie...

Refining Industrial Scale Systems in Circus

Circus is a new notation that may be used to specify both data and behaviour aspects of a system, and has an associated refinement calculus. Although a few case studies are already available in the literature, the industrial fire control system presented in this paper is, as far as we know, the largest case study on the Circus refinement strategy. We describe the refinement and present some new...

Radiocarbon Dating.

Radiocarbon Dating: The Continuing Revolution

Radiocarbon (I4C) dating, now in its fifth decade of general use, continues to be the most widely employed method of inferring chronometric age for late Pleistocene and Holocene age materials recovered from archeological contexts. Over the last decade, several technical advances in I4C studies have provided contexts for a number of significant applications in archeology that were previously eit...

Rewriting the Central European Early Bronze Age Chronology: Evidence from Large-Scale Radiocarbon Dating

The transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe has often been considered as a supra-regional uniform process, which led to the growing mastery of the new bronze technology. Since the 1920s, archaeologists have divided the Early Bronze Age into two chronological phases (Bronze A1 and A2), which were also seen as stages of technical progress. On the basis of the early...