The reconstruction of the chronology of historical buildings is a tricky issue, as usually there are not historical documents that allow the assessment of construction phases, and some materials are hardly reliable for the use of dating techniques (e.g., stone). However, in the last two decades, important advances on the use of absolute dating methods on building materials have increased the po...

ABSTRACT This article discusses the absolute chronology of collective burials Trzciniec Cultural Circle communities Middle Bronze Age in East Central Europe. Based on Bayesian modeling 91 accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dates from 18 cemeteries, practice burying individuals was linked to a period 400–640 (95.4%) years, between 1830–1690 and 1320–1160 BC. Collective mounds w...

Historical inference is at its most powerful when independent lines of evidence can be integrated into a coherent account. Dating linguistic and cultural lineages can potentially play a vital role in the integration of evidence from linguistics, anthropology, archaeology and genetics. Unfortunately, although the comparative method in historical linguistics can provide a relative chronology, it ...

7 Globular clusters and Population II stars are fossil remnants of the first major epoch of star formation in the Milky Way. SIM Lite will determine precise distances to selected Pop II objects to define a reliable distance scale, and establish reliable absolute and relative ages. Those ages set a minimum age for the Universe and map the early formation history of the Milky Way. The resultant a...