Responses of the mangrove ecosystem to Holocene environmental change in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India by ARGHYA KUMAR HAIT, HERMANN BEHLING

“…Pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating were used to study the Holocene development and dynamics of this unique ecosystem. …”
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Middle Bronze Age funerary hipogea from Torre Velha 3 (Serpa, Portugal). The Southeast inside the Southwest?! by Catarina ALVES, Catarina COSTEIRA, Susana ESTRELA, Eduardo PORFÍRIO, Miguel SERRA, António M. Monge SOARES, Marta MORENO-GARCÍA

“…Grave goods consist in pottery, metal artifacts and also meat offerings which point out to a ritual of commensality performed when the burial took place. Radiocarbon dating of bone samples taken from the meat offerings allowed ascribing to these hipogea a chronology on the second quarter/ beginning of the third quarter of the II Millennium BC.…”
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Pазказът на костните останки: два скелета от вкопано жилище № 10, ранносредновековен комплекс Брестница–Полето, Северозападна България... by Victoria Russeva, Lyuba Manoilova, Stiliyan Ivanov

“…While these are not the only skeletons discovered on the site, this find is of note because, unlike other burials excavated nearby, it doe s not represent a regular Christian burial Instead the remains were found on the floor of a housing structure. The radiocarbon dating of the bones indicates they were from the first decade / half of the 9th century. …”
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TOOL KIT VARIABILITY OF THE PALEOLITHIC KHARGANYN-GOL-5 SITE IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA by A. M. Khatsenovich, E. P. Rybin, S. A. Gladyshev, S. V. Markin

“…The paper is devoted to stone tool kit analysis of cultural Horizons 4 – 7 from Kharganyn-Gol-5 site in Northern Mongolia. According to radiocarbon dating, the age of cultural Horizon 5 is older than 40,000 BP. …”
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Geochemical basis of climate change indication in the Holocene sediments of Lake Bannoe (Southern Urals, Russia) by A.R. Yusupova, N.G. Nourgalieva

“…The paper presents the results of the analysis of the suitability of the chemical variability index CIA for detecting climate changes in the sediments of Lake Bannoe (Southern Urals) during the Holocene. The radiocarbon dating showed that the lake age is ~ 13 ka cal. …”
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Sex Determination and Isotopic Analysis of the Nivåfjord Mesolithic Burials, Zealand, Denmark by Kurt J. Gron, Harry Robson, Nicolas A. Stewart, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Ole Lass Jensen, Janet Montgomery

“…Unfortunately, the micro-region is characterised by poor organic preservation, restricting the successful application of biomolecular techniques to human remains, including large-scale radiocarbon dating programmes as well as both stable isotope and ancient DNA analyses. …”
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Shepherding the past: High-resolution data on Neolithic Southern Iberian livestock management at Cueva de El Toro (Antequera, Málaga). by Alejandro Sierra, Vanessa Navarrete, Roger Alcàntara, María Dolores Camalich, Dimas Martín-Socas, Denis Fiorillo, Krista McGrath, Maria Saña

“…The radiocarbon dates on the analysed remains evidenced they were deposited at the site over a short period, supporting the recurrent use of the cave. …”
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Vegetation and climate changes in the forest of Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, during the last 25,000 cal yr BP by Adriana Mercedes Camejo Aviles, Fresia Ricardi-Branco, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Luís Carlos Bernacci

“…The chronological frame is given by eight radiocarbon dating methods. Pollen and stable isotope analyses (δ 13C and δ 15N) were performed all along the core. …”
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Lo strano caso della mummia di Ankhpakhered: datazione al radiocarbonio di campioni organici by Carla Corvaglia, Sabina Malgora, Lucio Calcagnile, Gianluca Quarta, Marisa D’Elia

“…Furthermore, specimens were taken via endoscopy for AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) radiocarbon dating and FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) analyses which have been carried out at CEDAD.…”
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Early Hungarian grave with decorative shoe soles near the Glinoe village by Kvitnytskyi, M.V., Telnov N.P., Türk A.

“…Taking into account the radiocarbon dating, the time of the interment can be limited more accurately between the years 850 and 870. …”
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Holocene Hydroclimatic Changes in Northern Peloponnese (Greece) Inferred from the Multiproxy Record of Lake Lousoi by Dionysios Stamatis, Alexandros Emmanouilidis, Alessia Masi, Adam Izdebski, Pavlos Avramidis

“…Analyses conducted on the core include grain size, TOC, TN, pH, EC, total carbonates (%), magnetic susceptibility measurements, XRF analysis, and radiocarbon dating. Our paleoenvironmental reconstruction was based on geochemical proxies’ distribution in the core, combined with sediment physical and textural characteristics and later comparison between additional lacustrine archives from northern Peloponnese. …”
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A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva. by Anastasia Shatilovich, Vamshidhar R Gade, Martin Pippel, Tarja T Hoffmeyer, Alexei V Tchesunov, Lewis Stevens, Sylke Winkler, Graham M Hughes, Sofia Traikov, Michael Hiller, Elizaveta Rivkina, Philipp H Schiffer, Eugene W Myers, Teymuras V Kurzchalia

“…Here, we present precise radiocarbon dating indicating that the Panagrolaimus individuals have remained in cryptobiosis since the late Pleistocene (~46,000 years). …”
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Disentangling the origins of viticulture in the western Mediterranean by Francesco Breglia, Laurent Bouby, Nathan Wales, Sarah Ivorra, Girolamo Fiorentino

“…This consist of 55 waterlogged pips from Grotta di Pertosa, a Middle Bronze Age settlement in the south of the Italian peninsula. Direct radiocarbon dating of pips was carried out, confirming the chronological consistency of the samples with their archaeological contexts (ca. 1450–1200 BCE). …”
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Reconstruction of Grønfjordbreen dynamics (West Spitsbergen) in the Holocene by O. V. Kokin, A. V. Kirillova

“…Careful investigation of lithology and stratigraphy of the push-moraine together with radiocarbon dating of marine shells resulted in determination of chronology of the main sedimentation stages during the Holocene within area of the present-day proglacial zone. …”
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A Conversion-period burial in an ancient landscape: a high-status female grave near the Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire/Warwickshire by Hamerow, H

“…This was confirmed by two samples of bone taken for AMS radiocarbon dating, which produced a combined date of 622–652 cal AD at 68.2 per cent probability and 604–656 cal AD at 95.4 per cent probability (OxA-37509, OxA-37510). …”

Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse by Cucchi, T, Papayianni, K, Cersoy, S, Aznar-Cormano, L, Zazzo, A, Debruyne, R, Berthon, R, Bălășescu, A, Simmons, A, Valla, F, Hamilakis, Y, Mavridis, F, Mashkour, M, Darvish, J, Siahsarvi, R, Biglari, F, Petrie, CA, Weeks, L, Sardari, A, Maziar, S, Denys, C, Orton, D, Jenkins, E, Zeder, M, Searle, JB, Larson, G, Bonhomme, F, Auffray, J-C, Vigne, J-D

“…BP, combining geometric morphometrics numerical taxonomy, ancient mitochondrial DNA and direct radiocarbon dating. We found that large late hunter-gatherer sedentary settlements in the Levant, c. 14,500 cal. …”

Isotopic evidence for changing mobility and landscape use patterns between the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in western Ireland by Snoeck, C, Jones, C, Pouncett, J, Goderis, S, Claeys, P, Mattielli, N, Zazzo, A, Reimer, PJ, Lee-Thorp, JA, Schulting, RJ

“…This paper presents the results of a study using strontium, oxygen and carbon isotopes, strontium concentrations, infrared analyses and radiocarbon dating to investigate human mobility and landscape use as seen in individuals from the Neolithic court tomb of Parknabinnia, Co. …”

Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK by Roffey, S, Tucker, K, Filipek-Ogden, K, Montgomery, J, Cameron, J, O’Connell, T, Evans, J, Marter, P, Taylor, G

“…The individual was a young adult male, aged around 18-25 years at the time of death. Radiocarbon dating showed the remains dated to the late 11th-early 12th centuries, a time when pilgrimages were at their height in Europe. …”

Geochemical features of holocene section of Minzelinskoe lake sapropel (Western Siberia) by Anton Maltsev, Galina Leonova, Vladislav Bobrov, Sergey Krivonogov

“…Methods used in the study: atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma, Xray fluorescence analysis, CHNS elemental analysis, sowing and counting microorganisms, radiocarbon dating, silicate Xray fluorescence and Xray diffraction analysis, highresolution gammaspectrometry a semiconductor using a HPGe detector, loss on ignition, dfissolution of carbonates, titrimetric, turbidimetric and photometric methods. …”
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Surveying the Neolithic farmers in Aegean Thrace with digital technologies by Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Kyriakos Sgouropoulos, Stavros Kotsos, Periklis Chrysaphakoglou, Maria Chrysaphi, Despoina Skoulariki

“…To this end, archaeological surface survey, multi-component geophysical research, palaeogeographical and geological investigations including borehole cores, and radiocarbon dating of the samples from drilling cores were undertaken at eight Neolithic settlements. …”
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