A Personal Reflection on 40 Years of Radiocarbon Dating and Archaeology

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ID9244967
AuthorsMark Van Strydonck (0000-0002-9074-4526)
Year2017
Volume59
Issue5
Pages1241-1250
Publication date2017-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadiocarbon (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-8222 • E-ISSN: 1945-5755
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/rdc.2016.110
OpenAlexW2561134518
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

In 1981, the first 14 C and Archaeology Symposium was organized because it was felt necessary to have a symposium that focused on the specific problems related to the use of 14 C dating in archaeology. The dating method has been constantly changing and approving itself technically as well as in the application of the method. The relationship between the archaeologists and the 14 C dating laboratories has, however, never been straightforward. For a lot of 14 C laboratories, archaeology was not their core business. For archaeologists, the main problem arose from an insufficient knowledge of natural sciences. The last decennia, however, 14 C and archaeology are growing towards one another. One of the reasons might be the introduction of small exclusively 14 C-dedicated machines and the availability of fully automatic graphitization lines

Absolute dating · Archaeology · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology

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