An open-source toolkit for radiocarbon dating and calibration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21378595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martijn Blaauw (0000-0002-5680-1515, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author), Paula J Reimer (0000-0001-9238-2146, Queen's University Belfast) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radiocarbon (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-8222 • E-ISSN: 1945-5755 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rdc.2026.10221 |
| OpenAlex | W7167668641 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The analysis and interpretation of radiocarbon dates can involve many steps, such as switching between units or time-scales, assessing the impacts of contamination, applying marine or other offsets, inspecting calibration curves, calibrating dates, extracting probabilities from calibrated distributions, and analysing and plotting multiple dates. Here, we present rice , a new open-source R package which, together with other packages such as rbacon , Bchron , coffee and clam , enables users to perform such calculations within R , thus allowing most of the steps from data entry to calibration, age-modeling and subsequent analysis and interpretation of time-series to be performed within a single widely-used, multi-platform, transparent and open-source software environment. All calculation steps are documented and can be inspected, and users can also write new/enhanced functions. The package could thus prove useful in both educational and research settings
Calibration · Interpretation (philosophy) · R package · Radiocarbon dating · Software package · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Software
Radiocarbon Dates
A Simple Monotone Process with Application to Radiocarbon-Dated Depth Chronologies
Methods and code for ‘classical’ age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences
High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period
Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process
A new approach to radiocarbon summarisation
C Background Levels in An Accelerator Mass Spectrometry System
Marine20—The Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55,000 cal BP)
A New Robust Statistical Model for Radiocarbon Data
Atmospheric Radiocarbon for the Period 1950–2019
Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy
Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates
Australian Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effects
Extended 14 C Data Base and Revised Calib 3.0 14 C Age Calibration Program
Modelling chronologically ordered radiocarbon dates in R
Developments in the Calibration and Modeling of Radiocarbon Dates
Inference From Large Sets of Radiocarbon Dates
Marine Radiocarbon Calibration in Polar Regions
Discussion Reporting of 14 C Data
SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP
The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)
Procedures for Comparing and Combining Radiocarbon Age Determinations
INTCAL98 Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 24,000-0 cal BP
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