The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands) by de Nascimento, L, Willis, K, Fernandez-Palacios, J, Criado, C, Whittaker, R

“…Fossil pollen and microfossil charcoal concentrations were analysed. Radiocarbon dating of the sequence indicates that it spans approximately the last 4700 years. …”

From the Andes to the coast: human mobility and diet in the Atacama desert during the late intermediate period (ad 900-1450) by Sagredo, F

“…This is also supported by the absence of a marine reservoir effect on the radiocarbon dates, reflected in the lack of offset between paired dates of bone collagen and textiles in individuals enriched in ¹⁵N.…”

Testing various pre-treatments on artificially waterlogged and pitch-contaminated wood for strontium isotope analyses by Snoeck, C, Schulting, RJ, Brock, F, Rodler, AS, Van Ham-Meert, A, Mattielli, N, Ostapkowicz, J

“…For samples artificially immersed in pitch, the pre-treatments tested were based on radiocarbon dating procedures and carried out with and without the aqueous-based acid-base-acid (ABA) step. …”

A sting in the tail: an embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan by Schulting, R, Kubo, D, Nishida, K, Braddick, I, Yoneda, M, Kato, H, Ishida, H

“…<br><strong> Methods<br></strong> Macroscopic observation and low power magnification, CT imaging, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen) analysis. …”

Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave by Douka, K, Slon, V, Jacobs, Z, Bronk Ramsey, C, Shunkov, M, Derevianko, A, Mafessoni, F, Kozlikin, M, Bo, L, Grun, R, Comeskey, D, Deviese, T, Brown, S, Viola, B, Kinsley, L, Buckley, M, Meyer, M, Roberts, R, Pääbo, S, Kelso, J, Higham, T

“…The youngest Denisovan dates to 52,000–76,000 years ago. Direct radiocarbon dating of Upper Palaeolithic tooth pendants and bone points yielded the earliest evidence for the production of these artefacts in northern Eurasia, between 43,000 and 49,000 calibrated years before present (taken as AD 1950). …”

Dating the Aterian using techniques of luminescence dating and implications for mapping the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens by Clark-Balzan, LA

“…Due to widespread radiocarbon dating of contaminated samples, most Aterian sites are not well-dated. …”

Paleo-Tsunami deposits investigation for tsunami hazard assessment in east Sabah by Felix Tongkul, Hazlinda lbno, Tajul Anuar jamaluddin

“…The coastal deposits are mostly fine to medium-grained beach sand produced by low energy waves, with several occurrence of very coarse to gravelly beach deposit produced by strong storm currents. Radiocarbon dating suggest that these coastal deposits were deposited since 4,000 years ago. …”
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Kebudayaan Paleolitik Di Lembah Mansuli Semasa Pleistosen Tengah Hingga Pleistosen Akhir (235,000 -11,000 Tahun Dahulu) by Abdullah, Mohd Jeffrey

“…Each site has revealed four cultural layers and provided evidence that the valley was inhabited as early as 235,000 years until 11,000 years ago, based on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating methods. At the Mansuli open-air site, there are 4 cultural layers which have been dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) to 15,400, 24,600, 52,600 and 235,000 years ago respectively. …”
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Species and origin determinations of an ivory chess set: An application of the ivory workflow implemented by California’s Wildlife Forensic Laboratory by Kelly L. Carrothers, Nicole M. Slattengren, Mary K. Kuhner, Thomas A. Brown, Ashley M. Spicer

“…Stable isotope data corroborated these findings and radiocarbon dating suggested the ivory used to carve these chess pieces grew approximately 6 years prior to the chess set being purchased. …”
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Winter air temperature in Holocene reconstructed from the ice wedges stable water isotopes near Anadyr town by N. A. Budantseva, Yu. A. Vasil'chuk

“…Two representative fragments of both the above outcrops were thoroughly examined. Radiocarbon dating had shown that accumulation of peat on surface of the first marine terrace started in early Holocene (about 8 ka BP). …”
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Paleoearthquakes of the Yangda-Yaxu fault across the Nujiang suture and Lancang river suture zone, southeastern Tibetan Plateau by Mingming Han, Mingming Han, Lichun Chen, Yanbao Li, Shuaipo Gao, Jiahui Feng

“…Through trench excavations and exposure cleaning combined with radiocarbon dating, five faulting events were identified, namely, E1 through E5 from youngest to oldest (831–1,220, 3,307–6,703, 9,361–10,286, 12,729–14,651, and before 14,651 yr BP). …”
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Soils in Karst Sinkholes Record the Holocene History of Local Forest Fires at the North of European Russia by Nikita Mergelov, Dmitry Petrov, Elya Zazovskaya, Andrey Dolgikh, Alexandra Golyeva, Vladimir Matskovsky, Renat Bichurin, Sofia Turchinskaya, Vladimir Belyaev, Sergey Goryachkin

“…The maximum temporal “depth” of archives estimated from the radiocarbon dating of macrocharcoal reached 10,260 ± 35 cal yr BP. …”
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Constraining recent Shiveluch volcano eruptions (Kamchatka, Russia) by means of dendrochronology by O. Solomina, I. Pavlova, A. Curtis, G. Jacoby, V. Ponomareva, M. Pevzner

“…This date is in close agreement with the previously obtained radiocarbon date of these sediments to AD 1641(1652)1663. …”
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A ESCAVAÇÃO NO SÍTIO ARQUEOLÓGICO TEMPLO DOS PILARES E SUA RELAÇÃO COM A OCUPAÇÃO HUMANA E A PRODUÇÃO DE ARTE RUPESTRE EM MATO GROSSO DO SUL by João Carlos de Souza, Rodrigo Luiz Simas de Aguiar

“…The results of the excavation indicates two moments of human occupation: the first and older covered the period between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago and is related to the first groups of hunters and gatherers, authors of rock paintings; the other one, more recent, is related with ceramists groups whose presence dates back 3,000 years, being the authors of the engravings figures. The radiocarbon dating was made by Beta Analytic Laboratory in Miami, USA. …”
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Late-Holocene Sediment Storage in Upland Valley Systems in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia by Alemayehu Kasaye Tilahun, Gert Verstraeten, Margaret Chen, Guchie Gulie, Femke Augustijns, Ward Swinnen

“…Cumulative probability function plots of radiocarbon dates show that sedimentation started to increase from ca 2000 to ca 1600 cal BP, roughly coincident with an increase in human presence, as is indicated through archaeological data.…”
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Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany by Eleftheria Orfanou, Barbara Zach, Adam B. Rohrlach, Florian N. Schneider, Enrico Paust, Mary Lucas, Taylor Hermes, Jana Ilgner, Erin Scott, Peter Ettel, Wolfgang Haak, Robert Spengler, Patrick Roberts

“…Here, we apply stable isotope analysis, radiocarbon dating and archaeobotanical analysis to two Late Bronze Age (LBA) sites, Esperstedt and Kuckenburg, in central Germany, where human remains were inhumed rather than cremated. …”
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A 5000-Year Sedimentary Record of East Asian Winter Monsoon from the Northern Muddy Area of the East China Sea by Yanping Chen, Yan Li, Wenzhe Lyu, Dong Xu, Xibin Han, Tengfei Fu, Liang Yi

“…In this work, the sediments of the upper part of core ECS-DZ1 with several marine surface samples were studied in terms of sediment grain size and radiocarbon dating, and changes in sedimentary dynamics of the northern muddy area of the ECS over the past 5000 years were documented. …”
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LATE QUATERNARY ACTIVITY OF THE HARAMACHI SEGMENT OF THE FUTABA FAULT IN NORTHEAST JAPAN THROUGH TOPOGRAPHIC ANAGLYPH IMAGES AND BOREHOLE CORE SEDIMENT ANALYSIS by Anggraini Rizkita Puji, Naoya Takahashi, Shinji Toda

“…Moreover, a shallow borehole survey and radiocarbon dating from the soil organic material has revealed the minimal timing estimation of the most recent faulting in the Haramachi segment to be 3694 ± 24 BP. …”
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Late Glacial development of lakes and wetland vegetation in a dune area in Central Poland by Agnieszka M. Lewandowska, Krystyna Milecka, Przemysław Niedzielski, Sambor Czerwiński, Mariusz Gałka

“…This study investigated the history of the development of six, paleo-lakes, which are at present filled with sediments, in a dune area in Central Poland, based on multiproxy paleoecological analyses and accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating. The aims of the paleoecological studies were: i) to determine the initial age of lakes development, ii) to reconstruct the local and regional plant succession, as well as iii) to reconstruct the environmental conditions during the initial stage of the development of lakes and peatlands. …”
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Washover deposits related to tsunami and storm surge along the north coast of the Shimokita Peninsula in northern Japan by Daisuke Ishimura, Takashi Ishizawa, Masaki Yamada, Kaori Aoki, Kai Sato

“…We performed nondestructive analyses (X-ray computed tomography and micro-X-ray-fluorescence core scanning), grain-size analysis, tephra analysis, and radiocarbon dating of sediments from two coastal outcrops and inland drill cores. …”
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