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	Radiocarbon Date calculation
		The radiocarbon age of a sample is obtained by measurement of the residual radioactivity.
		1890 wood was chosen as the radiocarbon standard because it was growing prior to the fossil fuel effects of the industrial revolution.
		A radiocarbon measurement, termed a conventional radiocarbon age (or CRA) is obtained using a set of parameters outlined by Stuiver and Polach (1977), in the journal Radiocarbon.
	www.c14dating.com /agecalc.html (1984 words)

	Radiocarbon revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A scientific method used to ascertain the actual age of an artifact is called radiocarbon dating.
		The "revolution" then refers to its impact on archaeology, particularly on many of archaeology's theoretical assumptions until this tool was introduced after World War II.
		In effect, radiocarbon dating establishes that many artifacts are now known to be far older than previously thought, and thus going back to earlier ages than otherwise could have been if they had been only the inspired and diffused products of the Near Eastern civilization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radiocarbon_revolution (174 words)

	Archaeology in Anatolia--Scientific Chronology
		Radiocarbon with a four decade history since it was 'discovered' in 1950 is the most well-known of these techniques in Anatolia, yet only rarely is it possible to perform either radiocarbon determinations or derive dendrochronological dates on material from excavations before 1950 because almost all such material was discarded by early excavators.
		Radiocarbon, the "oldest" of the dating techniques from the Anatolian point of view, depends on the measurement of the steady decay of the radioactive isotope (14C) of carbon as it transmutes into a stable isotope of nitrogen (14N), losing half its radioactive nuclei every 5730 years.
		Radiocarbon dating is an expensive technique, and many excavators, daunted by the cost of submitting a set of samples for determination, send in only one or two samples, with subsequent loss of precision in their dates.
	www.arts.cornell.edu /dendro/..\dendro\AnatoliaArchyEncy\scichron.html (1937 words)

	Carbon Dating
		The new isotope is called "radiocarbon" because it is radioactive, though it is not dangerous.
		Radiocarbon oxidizes (that is, it combines with oxygen) and enters the biosphere through natural processes like breathing and eating.
		Plants and animals naturally incorporate both the abundant C-12 isotope and the much rarer radiocarbon isotope into their tissues in about the same proportions as the two occur in the atmosphere during their lifetimes.
	www.allaboutarchaeology.org /carbon-dating.htm (846 words)

	Units: R
		After a plant or animal dies, as the carbon-14 trapped in its body slowly decays, the age of the tissue can be measured by the fraction of radioactive carbon remaining.
		The age T of a sample, in radiocarbon years, is computed from the formula T = -8033 ln (R/A), where R is the measured ratio of carbon-14 to ordinary carbon-12 in the sample and A is a benchmark ratio measured in the atmosphere in 1950.
		As an example, a sample with a nominal age of 12 000 radiocarbon years has an actual age of about 14 000 years.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictR.html (3964 words)

	The method
		The radiocarbon method is based on the rate of decay of the radioactive or unstable carbon isotope 14 (14C), which is formed in the upper atmosphere through the effect of cosmic ray neutrons upon nitrogen 14.
		The first acid test of the new method was based upon radiocarbon dating of known age samples primarily from Egypt (the dates are shown in the diagram by the red lines, each with a ±1 standard deviation included).
		Radiocarbon dates of sequential dendrochronologically aged trees primarily of US bristlecone pine and German and Irish oak have been measured over the past 10 years to produce a calendrical / radiocarbon calibration curve which now extends back over 10 000 years (more on Calibration).
	www.c14dating.com /int.html (1743 words)

	Is radiocarbon dating based on assumptions?
		C ratio was like before the industrial revolution, and all radiocarbon dating is made with this in mind.
		The whole validity of radiocarbon dating for the past 10,000 years---the time span of interest to biblical chronology---hangs only on the tree-ring chronologies which are used to calibrate it.
		As with variation in atmospheric radiocarbon concentration, the decay rate of radiocarbon in tree-ring calibration samples would be affected in exactly the same way as the decay rate of radiocarbon in the specimen to be dated.
	www.biblicalchronologist.org /answers/c14_assumptions.php (659 words)

	K-12
		Radiocarbon dating enabled archaeologists and other scientists to verify the ages of carbon-bearing materials ndependently and almost overnight revolutionised the approach of dating the past.
		Radiocarbon dating is one of the critical discoveries in 20th century science and it provided one of the most important tools for archaeologists in their quest to uncover the past.
		Radiocarbon dating is limited to the period 0 - 60 000 years, because the 'half-life' of radiocarbon is about 5700 years, so to date rocks scientists must use other methods.
	www.c14dating.com /k12.html (2794 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : 2006 09
		These dates are radiocarbon years, and calibrated dates might be older (and closer to the early Aurignacian "calibrated" dates).
		The real question is whether the radiocarbon data address the pattern of change in biology and archaeology -- a sudden shift might still be a piecewise or mosaic transition, and a long shift might nevertheless have discrete boundaries.
		Mellars P. A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/2006/09/26 (1743 words)

	Périgord and Austria-Moravia from 43000 to 18200 bp - Introduction
		A second milestone was the invention of radiocarbon dating in the forties by Libby, giving the possibility to check the assumed age of the stratigraphical sections.
		If the introduction of radiocarbon chronology was a revolution to archaeolgy, the detection, that athmospheric 14C production is not steady, was a revolution to radiocarbon dating itself: Long time calibrations by dendrochronological counting displayed remarkable deviations.
		Trying to use original radiocarbon dates soon turned out to be dangerous, since a lot of them obviously lay outside the range of the phenomenon to be dated.
	www.uf.uni-erlangen.de /eis/introduction.html (1335 words)

	A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia : Nature
		A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia
		Radiocarbon dating has been fundamental to the study of human cultural and biological development over the past 50,000 yr.
		Two recent developments in the methodology of radiocarbon dating show that the speed of colonization of Europe by modern human populations was more rapid than previously believed, and that their period of coexistence with the preceding Neanderthal was shorter.
	www.nature.com /nature/journal/v439/n7079/abs/nature04521.html (177 words)

	A Revolution in Ancient Radiocarbon Chronology RONALD D
		Those who adhere to the radiocarbon data recently published for the two regions claim that the prehistoric chronology must be transported hack to earlier periods.
		One of the foundational points of radiocarbon dating, as developed by Libby, was that the concentration of available radioactive carbon 14 in the atmosphere is constant in time for all locations on the earth.
		During the 1960's radiocarbon chronologists could not understand the reason for the 500 and 600 year discrepancies between their C-14 dates, and the so-called "astronomically established" chronology of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1975/JASA3-75Long.html (5068 words)

	What's New
		Radiocarbon Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland
		Radiocarbon Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
		Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (IGNS) at Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
	www.c14dating.com /whtsnew.html (450 words)

	Good Dates and Bad Dates in Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As a result of this conception of the “Radiocarbon Revolution”, up to 1974, all organic samples used for 14C determinations of the Valdivia chronology in coastal Ecuador were gathered by “artificial” metric levels of excavation (Meggers, Evans and Estrada 1965: 15-21, 147-156).
		For almost all radiocarbon dates TL date is inside 95% confidence interval of calibrated radiocarbon age.
		Ceramic modal-analysis and the study of changes in paste composition and firing temperature (9), have also served to refine the ceramic phase indicators proposed by Betsy Hill (1972/1974), which have served to substantiate the ceramic phases presented in Table 4.
	www.archeo.uw.edu.pl /andy/MICH_MAR.HTM (4596 words)

	cars - Archaeological science
		Significant new data can be obtained using these techniques, which has the potential to alter the understanding of the past.
		A good example of this is the so-called "Second radiocarbon revolution ", which significantly re-dated European prehistory in the 1960's (the first radiocarbon revolution was the original introduction of the method to archaeology).
		As indicated, one of the most important applications of archaeological science has been the absolute dates it can provide for archaeological strata and artefacts.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Archaeometry (301 words)

	New Archaeology
		The idea of a revolution in human behaviour during the upper paleolithic era has been weakended once more with further finds of 'jewellery' dating back more than 75,000 years.
		The old belief that there had been some sort of radical shift in behavour during the upper paleolithic (40-50,000 years ago) was based upon a lack of archaeological evidence of activities that we see in later humans.
		This is to be welcomed by researchers who sought in vain for a reason for the revolution in behaviour occuring when there was no change in anatomy at the time.
	www.newarchaeology.com (2120 words)

	Belili Productions - Colin Renfrew Bio
		Colin Renfrew is an English archaeologist, notable for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites.
		In 1973 Renfrew published Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe in which he challenged the assumption that prehistoric cultural innovation originated in the Near East and then spread to Europe.
		In 1981 he was elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, a post he held until he retired in 2004.
	www.belili.org /marija/bios/colin_renfrew.html (405 words)

	Radiocarbon revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The "revolution" then refers to its impact on archaeology, particularly on many of archaeology's theoretical assumptions until this tool was introduced afterWorld War II.
		In effect, radiocarbon dating establishes that many artifacts are now known to be far older than previouslythought, and thus going back to earlier ages than otherwise could have been if they had been only the inspired and diffusedproducts of the Near Eastern civilization.
		Therefore, the notion that the ancient Near East was the fount of global humancivililzation can no longer hold true.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/radiocarbon-revolution-166127.html (139 words)

	00005721-Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The module is designed to provide the background and specific applied knowledge necessary to be able to work in dendrochronology and to calibrate, analyse and interpret radiocarbon data.
		The module also seeks to provide background and appreciation of the role of dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating in the development of archaeology, and especially the continuing impact of the so-called 'radiocarbon revolution'.
		Practical sessions include projects on radiocarbon calibration, analysis and interpretation, and on dendrochronological measurement and interpretation, and an oral and written critique of a published case study.
	www.info.rdg.ac.uk /module/0405/SC/AR3S3.htm (376 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: radiocarbon: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Radiocarbon Dates: Samples Funded by English Heritage and Dated Before 1981 by David Jordan (Paperback - 1 Jan 1994)
		Radiocarbon Dating (Interpreting the Past) by Sheridan Bowman (Paperback - 1 Jul 1992)
		Radiocarbon: Calibration and Prehistory by Trevor Watkins (Unknown Binding - Feb 1976)
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		It explains clearly and simply how radiocarbon dating works and how it came to be used in archaeology.
		Finally, what makes this an informative and pleasant read is Colin Renfrew's skill in selecting and developing interesting examples to illustrate the debates and thinking behind the adoption of radiocarbon dating - and the subsequent problems that scientists have had to resolve in order to achieve a reliable independent form of dating!
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		Radiocarbon and Archaeology: Fourth International Symposium, St. Catherine's College, Oxford (9-14th April, 2002) (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph)
		The Spatial Analysis of Radiocarbon Databases: The Spread of the First Farmers in Europe and of the Fat-tailed Sheep in Southern Africa (British Archaeological Reports International S.)
		Svalbard Radiocarbon Date List I (University of Colorado Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Occasional Paper, No 47)
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	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By noting styles and artefacts shared by adjacent cultures, prehistorians were able to build a relative chronological framework” (Dennell 1983 p.10).
		After the so-called ‘Radiocarbon Revolution’ (Renferw 1973), emphasis moved to looking at spatial distribution of specific types of artefact and these in many cases deconstructed the defined “cultures” as it became clear that certain components in assemblages were not local inventions but “exotic” intruders, the result of trade and exchange networks.
		An early problem in looking at archaeological data “was the neatly-wrapped package of prehistoric behaviour, whereby the social organization and subsistence inside each parcel could be inferred from the technological label on its wrapping-paper” (Dennell, 1983 p.16).
	www.egypt.ukideas.com /html/introduction.html (5846 words)

	Colin Renfrew
		Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens (New Aspects of Antiquity)
		Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (born Andrew Colin Renfrew, 25 July 1937), English archaeologist, notable for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites.
		Renfrew was educated at St Albans School and from 1956 to 1958 did National Service in the Royal Air Force.
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