The Relation Between Decadal Droughts and Eruptions of Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, USA by Shaul Hurwitz, John C. King, Gregory T. Pederson, Mara H. Reed, Lauren N. Harrison, Jefferson D. G. Hungerford, R. Greg Vaughan, Michael Manga

“…Photographs indicate that active eruptive phases have adversely affected trees up to 30 m from the vent, primarily in the dominant downwind direction. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the geyser formed before 1878, in contrast to the birthdate reported in historical documents. …”
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Interdisciplinary Investigations of the Neolithic Circular Ditch Enclosure of Velm (Lower Austria) by Mario Wallner, Michael Doneus, Ingrid Kowatschek, Alois Hinterleitner, Felix Köstelbauer, Wolfgang Neubauer

“…Based on this survey, selected structures were investigated by targeted archaeological excavations to evaluate the GPR results and to take samples for radiocarbon dating. This paper presents a synopsis of all the methods used. …”
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Vegetation History in Central Croatia from ~10,000 Cal BC to the Beginning of Common Era—Filling the Palaeoecological Gap for the Western Part of South-Eastern Europe (Western Balk... by Dario Hruševar, Koraljka Bakrač, Slobodan Miko, Nikolina Ilijanić, Martina Šparica Miko, Ozren Hasan, Božena Mitić

“…Additionally, the oldest observation (~9800 cal yr BP) of beech pollen for continental Croatia was confirmed by radiocarbon dating. Our results indicated a possibly milder climate with less extreme temperatures and higher precipitation during the Preboreal chronozone, alongside intensive flooding, a transition from a mosaic of wetland/wet grassland communities to alder carr during the Boreal, and an unusually long multi-thousand-year period, the annual presence of alder on the mire itself. …”
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Assessing the Reliability of a Small-Scale Legacy Radiocarbon Dataset Using Chronometric Transparency Approaches: Torres Strait Radiocarbon Database by Lauren Linnenlucke, Michael I. Bird, Fiona Petchey, Geordie Alliston, Ian J. McNiven, Bruno David, Sean Ulm

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Re-investigation of the sector collapse timing of Usu volcano, Japan, inferred from reworked ash deposits caused by debris avalanche by Mitsuhiro Nakagawa, Akiko Matsumoto, Mitsuki Yoshizawa

“…Deformation and fragmentation of the non-welded soft silicic Tpfl deposit during the transport and emplacement of the ZDA produced an accompanying ash cloud, which deposited the observed glassy, fine, ash fall units. Radiocarbon dating of soil samples directly below and above the reworked ash deposits allowed dating the sector collapse to ca. 8 ka. …”
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Late Holocene riparian vegetation dynamics, environmental changes, and human impact in the Harapan forest of Sumatra, Indonesia by Chung Hoai Nguyen, K. Anggi Hapsari, K. Anggi Hapsari, Asmadi Saad, Supiandi Sabiham, Hermann Behling

“…To achieve this, we conducted a multi-proxy paleoecological analysis, including pollen and spores, macro-charcoal and radiocarbon dating, on a sediment core taken from a riparian area in the Harapan forest of Sumatra. …”
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New evidence for regional pastoral practice and social complexity in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains in the first millennium BCE by Yuxuan Wang, Francesca Monteith, Tongyuan Xi, Meng Ren, Daren Li, Songmei Hu, Jianxin Wang, Marcella Festa, Jian Ma

“…In this paper we analyse the complete faunal assemblage from House F2 in Shirenzigou, on the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, in combination with radiocarbon dating and spatial analysis, to explore local animal resources exploitation strategies and related socio-economic implications. …”
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Holocene paleoclimatic reconstruction based on the Lagoa Dourada deposits, southern Brazil by Mário Sérgio de Melo, Paulo César Fonseca Giannini, Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda, M. Brandt Neto

“…The convergence of the sedimentological data obtained during this study with previous microfossil paleoclimatic (pollens and diatoms) indicators and radiocarbon dating suggests that a drier paleoclimatic phase occurred around 8720±150 years B.P. …”
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Coastal Boulders on the SE Coasts of Cyprus as Evidence of Palaeo-Tsunami Events by Niki Evelpidou, Christos Zerefos, Costas Synolakis, Christos Repapis, Anna Karkani, Miltiadis Polidorou, Giannis Saitis

“…Field data were subsequently combined with hydrodynamic equations, in order to determine the extreme event(s) that caused their transport inland, and radiocarbon dating was accomplished on three samples of <i>Vermetus</i> sp. to determine the chronological context. …”
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Lateral river erosion impacts the preservation of Neolithic enclosures in alluvial plains by Jean-Louis Grimaud, Patrick Gouge, Damien Huyghe, Christophe Petit, Laurence Lestel, David Eschbach, Martin Lemay, Jean Catry, Ibtissem Quaisse, Amélie Imperor, Léo Szewczyk, Daniel Mordant

“…This study introduces a reassessment of the paleo-landscape evolution around the Neolithic enclosures at the Noyen-sur-Seine site based on new field observations as well as the synthesis of (un)published and new radiocarbon dating. Contrary to the initial hypothesis, our results show that the Noyen enclosures were not built along a Neolithic Seine River: the nearby channels were active in the Middle Age and Early Modern periods. …”
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Pre-Columbian cultivation of vegetatively propagated and fruit tree tropical crops in the Atacama Desert by José M. Capriles, Magdalena García, Daniela Valenzuela, Alejandra I. Domic, Logan Kistler, Francisco Rothhammer, Calogero M. Santoro

“…By means of an evaluation of the contexts of their deposition and supported by direct radiocarbon dating, stable isotopes analyses, and starch grain analysis, we evaluate different hypotheses for explaining their introduction and adaptation to the hyper-arid soils of northern Chile, by societal groups that after the introduction of cultigens still retained a strong dependence on marine hunting, gathering and fishing ways of life based on wide variety of marine coast resources. …”
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Holocene Activity of the Wudaoliang–Changshagongma Fault of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau by Mingjian Liang, Yun Dong, Cheng Liao, Yulong Qin, Huiping Zhang, Weiwei Wu, Hong Zuo, Wenying Zhou, Changli Xiong, Li Yang, Yue Gong, Tian Li

“…Using trenching study results and sedimentary radiocarbon dating, we identified four paleoearthquake events that occurred at 42,378–32,975, 33,935–20,663, 5052–4862, and after 673–628 cal BP, respectively. …”
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Douglas Fir Multiproxy Tree-Ring Data Glimpse MIS 5 Environment in the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Irina P. Panyushkina, Steven W. Leavitt, David M. Meko, Bryan A. Black, A. J. Timothy Jull, Peter Van de Water, Joe Squire, Nicholas R. Testa

“…High-precision radiocarbon dating indicates an age exceeding 63 ka, i.e., the trees grew within the generally cool Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5), likely during a warmer interval optimal for Douglas fir establishment. …”
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Despre problema datării mormântului cx. 20A de la Pecica-Duvenbeck și a semnelor de cruce pe vasele ceramice din Bazinul Dunării mijlocie / On the Question of Dating the Tomb CX. 2... by Erwin Gáll, Florin Mărginean, Sarah Peter

“…Besides presenting this interesting discovery, we also proposed a debate on the problem of the radiocarbon dating of the grave, because the same samples of the skeleton were analysed in two laboratories getting antagonistic results. …”
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Papaver somniferum in seventeenth century (Italy): archaeotoxicological study on brain and bone samples in patients from a hospital in Milan by Gaia Giordano, Mirko Mattia, Lucie Biehler-Gomez, Michele Boracchi, Stefania Tritella, Emanuela Maderna, Alessandro Porro, Massimiliano Marco Corsi Romanelli, Antonia Francesca Franchini, Paolo Maria Galimberti, Fabrizio Slavazzi, Francesco Sardanelli, Domenico Di Candia, Cristina Cattaneo

“…Anthropological, paleopathological, histological, radiological examinations and radiocarbon dating were also carried out. As a result, archeotoxicological analyses revealed the presence of codeine, morphine, noscapine and papaverine, derived from Papaver somniferum, a plant present in the hospital pharmacopeia used as a narcotic, analgesic, astringent, coagulant, and antitussive agent. …”
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Hillfort of Bashanta-I from the Khazar Era: Exploring the Northern Wall Base by Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva

“…The five obtained radiocarbon dates of animal bones suggest that Bashanta-I and Bashanta-II are earliest available archaeological sites of the Khazar Khaganate. …”
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Bats as ecosystem engineers in iron ore caves in the Carajás National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia. by Luis B Piló, Allan Calux, Rafael Scherer, Enrico Bernard

“…We analyzed the chemical composition of guano deposits in bat caves, radiocarbon-dated those deposits, and elucidated the chemical mechanisms involved and the role the bat guano has on modifying those caves. …”
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Multi-isotopic study of the earliest mediaeval inhabitants of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) by Pérez-Ramallo, P, Grandal-d´Anglade, A, Organista, E, Santos, E, Chivall, D, Rodríguez-Varela, R, Götherström, A, Etxeberria, F, Ilgner, J, Fernandes, R, Arsuaga, JL, Le Roux, P, Higham, T, Beaumont, J, Koon, H, Roberts, P

“…Here, for the first time, we combine multi-isotope analysis (&delta;¹³C, &delta;¹⁵N, &delta;¹⁸O_ap, &delta;¹³C_ap&nbsp;and&nbsp;⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) and radiocarbon dating (¹⁴C) of human remains discovered at the crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago to directly study changes in diet and mobility during the first three centuries of Santiago&rsquo;s emergence as an urban centre (9th&ndash;12th centuries AD). …”

New data for the Early Upper Paleolithic of Kostenki (Russia) by Dinnis, R, Bessudnov, A, Reynolds, N, Devièse, T, Pate, A, Sablin, M, Sinitsyn, A, Higham, T

“…Kostenki 14's Layer in Volcanic Ash assemblage, on the other hand, compares to Early Aurignacian material. New radiocarbon dates targeting diagnostic lithics date to 39–37 ka cal BP. …”

Evidence for a large-magnitude Holocene eruption of Mount Rittmann (Antarctica): a volcanological reconstruction using the marine tephra record by Di Roberto, A, Albert, PG, Colizza, E, Del Carlo, P, Di Vincenzo, G, Gallerani, A, Giglio, F, Kuhn, G, Macrì, P, Manning, CJ, Melis, R, Miserocchi, S, Scateni, B, Smith, VC, Torricella, F, Winkler, A

“…A Holocene age of ∼11 ka was determined by radiocarbon dating organic material within the sediments and 40Ar-39Ar dating of alkali-feldspar crystals included in the tephra. …”