Isotopic and Chemical Tracing for Residence Time and Recharge Mechanisms of Groundwater under Semi-Arid Climate: Case from Rif Mountains (Northern Morocco) by Mohammed Hssaisoune, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, Mohamed Qurtobi, Hamid Marah, Mohamed Beraaouz, Jamal Stitou El Messari

“…Groundwater age determined by radiocarbon dating using the IAEA model indicates that the ages range from modern to 1460 years. …”
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New Trends in Immunohistochemical Methods to Estimate the Time since Death: A Review by Monica Salerno, Giuseppe Cocimano, Salvatore Roccuzzo, Ilenia Russo, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Nicholas Márquez-Grant, Christian Zammit, Massimiliano Esposito, Francesco Sessa

“…Several laboratory techniques have recently been developed that offer a better contribution to the estimation of PMI, in addition to the traditional physical or physico-chemical (body cooling, lividity, radiocarbon dating, rigor mortis), chemical (autolysis), microbiological (putrefaction), entomological, as well as botanical parameters. …”
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Forensic examination of a fragmentary funerary portrait in the collection of the Harvard art museums by Georgina Rayner, Katherine Eremin, Kate Smith, Caroline Cartwright, Patrick Degryse, Susanne Ebbinghaus

“…Targeted sampling, informed by the imaging process, was then undertaken for additional analysis through the use of cross-sections, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, radiocarbon dating, and lead isotope ratio analysis. This study identified a core group of three fragments in the center of the portrait that comprise much of the face and neck, tunic, and part of the hair. …”
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Burial of a warrior of the Rouran period from Northern Altai by Seregin N.N., Tishkin A.A., Matrenin S.S., Parshikova T.S.

“…This conclusion is confirmed by the results of radiocarbon dating of a series of objects from the Choburak-I necropolis. …”
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A Comprehensive Study on the Hydrogeochemical and Isotope Characteristics and Genetic Mechanism of Geothermal Water in the Northern Jinan Region by Zongjun Gao, Mengyuan Hao, Jiutan Liu, Qiang Li, Menghan Tan, Yiru Niu

“…The composition of ³H suggests that the GW in the NJR is a mixture of waters, while radiocarbon dating (¹⁴C) suggests that the recharge of the GW may have occurred in the late Pleistocene era. …”
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A Holocene Sedimentary Record and the Impact of Sea-Level Rise in the Karst Lake Velo Blato and the Wetlands on Pag Island (Croatia) by Nikolina Ilijanić, Slobodan Miko, Ivona Ivkić Filipović, Ozren Hasan, Martina Šparica Miko, Branko Petrinec, Josip Terzić, Tamara Marković

“…The paleoenvironmental reconstruction and anthropogenic impact are assessed through the lake sediment cores from Velo, Malo, and Kolanjsko Blato using multi-proxy analyses (sedimentological, mineralogical, geochemical, ¹³⁷Cs and ostracod analyses, and AMS ¹⁴C radiocarbon dating). The freshwater lake Velo Blato was formed at 8100 cal yr BP due to rising groundwater levels as a consequence of sea-level rise. …”
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The role of sea-level rise, monsoonal discharge and the palaeo-landscape in the early Holocene evolution of the Pearl River delta, southern China by Zong, Yongqiang, Huang, Kangyou, Yu, Fengling, Zheng, Zhuo, Switzer, Adam D., Huang, Guangqing, Wang, Ning, Tang, Min

“…Sedimentary and microfossil diatom analyses combined with radiocarbon dating provide new evidence for the interactions between sea-level rise, antecedent topography and sedimentary discharge changes within the deltaic basin since the last glacial. …”
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An evaluatory study of the methods used in the reconstruction of historical vegetation and land-use, with reference to part of East Sussex, England by Moffat, Brian

“…The evidence principally includes lithostratigraphy, the analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils (supported by radiocarbon dating) and mineralogy, and primary and secondary documentary sources. …”
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Integrated stable isotopic and radiocarbon analyses of Neolithic and bronze age hunter-gatherers from the Little Sea and Upper Lena micro- regions, Cis-Baikal, Siberia by White, JA, Schulting, RJ, Lythe, A, Hommel, P, Ramsey, CB, Moiseyev, V, Khartanovich, V, Weber, AW

“…Building on previous work, this study contributes new δ13C, δ15N, and AMS radiocarbon dating results from the cemeteries of Verkholensk (n = 44) in the Upper Lena River micro-region and Ulan-Khada (n = 19) in the Little Sea micro-region. …”

Resolving problematic luminescence chronologies for carbonate- and evaporite-rich sediments spanning multiple humid periods in the Jubbah Basin, Saudi Arabia by Clark-Balzan, L, Parton, A, Breeze, PS, Groucutt, HS, Petraglia, MD

“…Quartz OSL and feldspar pIRIR290 luminescence measurements and radiocarbon dating efforts are reported from four palaeoenvironmental sections in the Jubbah basin. …”

Comparing pollen and archaeobotanical data for Chalcolithic cereal agriculture at Çatalhöyük, Turkey by Eastwood, W, Fairbairn, A, Stroud, E, Roberts, N, Lamb, H, Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H, Şenkul, Ç, Moss, A, Turner, R, Boyer, P

“…Here we report combined pollen and archaeobotanical data originating from a waterlogged off-site organic-rich fill radiocarbon dated to ∼8 ka Cal BP located between the two occupation mounds at Neolithic-Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, south central Turkey in order to investigate the record of Early Chalcolithic agricultural activity. …”

To cut a long story short: formal chronological modelling for the Late Neolithic site of Ness of Brodgar, Orkney by Card, N, Mainland, I, Timpany, S, Towers, R, Batt, C, Ramsey, C, Dunbar, E, Reimer, P, Bayliss, A, Marshall, P, Whittle, A

“…Finding sufficient samples for radiocarbon dating was a considerable challenge. There are indications, from both features and finds, of activity pre-dating the main set of buildings exposed so far by excavation. …”

The Great Barrier Reef: The chronological record from a new borehole by Braithwaite, C, Dalmasso, H, Gilmour, M, Harkness, D, Henderson, G, Kay, R, Kroon, D, Montaggioni, L, Wilson, P

“…A minostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, uranium series dating, and modeling together with strontium ratios have been applied in an attempt to establish a chronology of accumulation. …”

Effective Moisture Evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum Revealed by a Loess Record from the Westerlies-Dominated Ili Basin, NW China by Yudong Li, Yue Li, Yougui Song, Haoru Wei, Yanping Wang, Nosir Shukurov

“…With the accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating (AMS ¹⁴C)-based Bayesian age–depth model, we provide a sensitive record of effective moisture evolution since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in the basin, and the results help enhance understanding of the possible driving mechanisms for westerly climate change. …”
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Dietary shift and social hierarchy from the Proto-Shang to Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains of China by Xin Li, Shanjia Zhang, Minxia Lu, Menghan Qiu, Shaoqing Wen, Minmin Ma

“…In this study, isotopic analysis and radiocarbon dating of human and animal bones from Xinancheng cemetery in southeast Shanxi Province are reported. …”
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Transformation of animal utilization strategies from the late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China: Zooarchaeological and stable isotopic evidence by Xin Li, Xin Li, Wenyu Wei, Minmin Ma, Minxia Lu, Linyao Du, Yishi Yang, Guoke Chen, Lele Ren

“…Here we report new zooarchaeological, stable isotope, and radiocarbon dating data from the Heishuiguo Cemetery of the Han Dynasty in the Hexi Corridor, indicating that humans mainly used domestic chickens, pigs and sheep as funerary objects, with other buried livestock including cattle, horses and dogs. …”
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Variability of Carbonate Isotope Signatures in a Hydrothermally Influenced System: Insights from the Pastos Grandes Caldera (Bolivia) by Cédric Bougeault, Christophe Durlet, Emmanuelle Vennin, Elodie Muller, Magali Ader, Bassam Ghaleb, Emmanuelle Gérard, Aurélien Virgone, Eric C. Gaucher

“…The very low fraction modern F¹⁴C in these present-day carbonates demonstrates that incorporation of fossil magmatic carbon related to the volcanic context also prevents any radiocarbon dating. The use of isotopes for the interpretation of ancient continental series should always be accompanied by a thorough characterization of the environmental setting.…”
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Indian Scenario of Biomass Availability and Its Bioenergy-Conversion Potential by Harshita Negi, Deep Chandra Suyal, Ravindra Soni, Krishna Giri, Reeta Goel

“…The impact of biomass-derived fuels is well-known as their radiocarbon dating indicates their contribution to young carbon emissions in addition to fewer emissions of particulates, sulfur dioxide, and air pollutants compared to fossil fuels. …”
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Guano stable isotopic evidence of Anthropocene climate change influence on aridity and vegetation dynamics by Daniel M. Cleary, Leanne Stepchinski, F. Paul Bertetti, Rebecca Nunu, Ronald T. Green, Bogdan P. Onac

“…A 2.8 m-long core of cave bat guano was obtained from an excavated pit within Bracken Cave (Texas, USA) and analyzed for δ13C and δ15N. Radiocarbon dating of the core indicated that guano deposition occurred between 1974–1989 and 1998–2016 CE. …”
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Asynchronous Transformation of Cropping Patterns from 5800–2200 cal BP on the Southern Loess Plateau, China by Liu Yang, Yishi Yang, Shanjia Zhang, Haiming Li, Huihui Cao, Yifu Cui, Fengwen Liu, Minmin Ma

“…Here, new archaeobotanical data and radiocarbon dating results from 27 Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Baoji are reported. …”
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