Issues in Building Radiocarbon Chronologies
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
The use of radiocarbon dates to reconstruct historical patterns of demography and behavior proceeds via processes of sample selection, measurement, calibration, compilation, exploratory data analysis, analytical statistics, and interpretation. This session brings together scholars refining facets of these processes in an effort to advance the overall ambition of making history visible via c14 dating. Topics include marine reservoir calibration, population dynamics via summed probability, Bayesian analyses of c14 data sets, methodological issues in measurement, calibration issues and systemic biases, taphonomic effects, and the potential for developing continental databases.
Other Keywords
Radiocarbon Dating •
Radiocarbon •
Northwest Coast •
demography •
Radiocarbon dates •
population •
Mobility •
Sampling Bias •
Settlement patterns •
Bayesian statistics
Geographic Keywords
North America - NW Coast/Alaska •
East/Southeast Asia •
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Isl (Country) •
MP (ISO Country Code) •
Territory of Guam (Country) •
GU (ISO Country Code) •
ID (ISO Country Code) •
Republic of Indonesia (Country) •
Republic of Tajikistan (Country) •
Kyrgyz Republic (Country)
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- Documents (15)
- Accuracy vs. Precision: Understanding Potential Errors from Radiocarbon Dating on African Landscapes (2015)
- Assessing the accuracy and precision of OSL dating against well vetted radiocarbon ages (2015)
- Bayesian analysis of the uncertainty in the radiocarbon dating measurements (2015)
- Building a Meaningful First Americans Radiocarbon Chronology (2015)
- Dating Pacific Period Settlement Pattern Dynamics in the Prince Rupert Harbor Region of Northern British Columbia. (2015)
- Demographic dynamics inferred from radiocarbon dates and sampling biases (2015)
- Demographic Fluctuation in Jomon Period of Japan (2015)
- Exploring Settlement and Mobility Pattern Changes Using Radiocarbon Databses (2015)
- In Twos and Threes: Dating Multiple Samples and Materials to Address the Marine Reservoir Effect (2015)
- Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Transition in Korea: Implications from the Evaluation of Radiocarbon dates (2015)
- Modelling Village Development in the Prince Rupert Harbour (2015)
- On the Precision and Accuracy of Radiocarbon Dating (2015)
- Reconstructing Settlement Histories using Simulations and Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates: An Example from a Plankhouse Village in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada (2015)
- The Revival of the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD) (2015)
- The Use of Bayesian Statistics to Increase both Precision and Accuracy in Radiocarbon Dating (2015)