Multicropping Pattern Reveals Human Adaptation at the Wanbei Site (ca. 5.7–4.4 ka cal. BP) in the Middle and Lower Huai River Valley, China by Weixin Tian, Wuhong Luo, Yuzhang Yang, Huiyuan Gan, Zhijie Cheng, Yajie Sun, Dailing Zhang, Liugen Lin, Juzhong Zhang

“…Focusing on crops, phytolith analyses of the soil samples, in tandem with radiocarbon dating from the Wanbei site, reveal evidence of a multicropping pattern of combining rice (<i>Oryza sative</i>), broomcorn millet (<i>Panicum miliaceum</i>), and foxtail millet (<i>Setaria italica</i>) during the Dawenkou culture period between 5720 and 4426 cal. …”
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Marine inundation history during the last 3000 years at Lake Kogare-ike, a coastal lake on the Pacific coast of central Japan by Yumi Shimada, Yuki Sawai, Dan Matsumoto, Koichiro Tanigawa, Kazumi Ito, Toru Tamura, Yuichi Namegaya, Masanobu Shishikura, Shigehiro Fujino

“…To constrain the depositional ages of the event deposits, Bayesian age–depth models were constructed based on radiocarbon dating of plant macrofossils and concentrated fossil pollen and the 137Cs profile. …”
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Chronology and Sedimentary Processes in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica since the Last Glacial Period by Geng Liu, Zhongshan Shen, Xibin Han, Haifeng Wang, Weiwei Chen, Yi Zhang, Pengyun Ma, Yibing Li, Yun Cai, Pengfei Xue, Huafeng Qin, Chunxia Zhang

“…Hence, three sediment cores were collected and studied in terms of radiocarbon dating, magnetic susceptibility, and sediment grain size to reconstruct the environmental processes in the Ross Sea since the last glacial period. …”
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The footprint of a historical paleoearthquake: the sixth-century-CE event in the European western Southern Alps by F. Livio, M. F. Ferrario, E. Martinelli, S. Talamo, S. Cercatillo, A. M. Michetti, A. M. Michetti

“…</p> <p>In the city of Como (N Italy), we perform stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses on the sedimentary sequences at Via Manzoni and we document earthquake archeological effects at the Roman baths by means of structure from motion and field surveys. Radiocarbon dating and chronological constraints from the archeological site allow us to bracket the time of occurrence of the deformations to the sixth century CE. …”
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Rare earth elements as sediment contamination tracers in a coastal lagoon in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Alex da Silva de Freitas, Lara Luiza de Oliveira Pompermayer, Ana Dalva de Oliveira Santos, Marília Teresa Lima do Nascimento, Tatiana Dillenburg Saint'Pierre, Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis, José Antônio Baptista Neto, Estefan Monteiro da Fonseca

“…Aim: The present study aimed to quantify REEs contents from Padre Lagoon to better ascertain the antropogenic environmental impact Methods: Surface sediments and one sediment core were investigated using a mass spectrometer. 14C radiocarbon dating was performed in the sediment core. Particle size analysis were made in the sediment core and the surface sediments. …”
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The genome and diet of a 35,000‐year‐old Canis lupus specimen from the Paleolithic painted cave, Chauvet‐Pont d'Arc, France by Jean‐Marc Elalouf, Pauline Palacio, Céline Bon, Véronique Berthonaud, Frédéric Maksud, Thomas W. Stafford Jr, Christophe Hitte

“…As part of the interdisciplinary research project devoted to this reference cave site, we analyzed a coprolite collected within the deep cave. AMS radiocarbon dating of bone fragments from the coprolite yielded an age of 30,450 ± 550 RC yr. …”
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Human planting strategies and its relation to climate change during ∼4,800–3,900 BP in the mid-lower Hulu River Valley, northwest China by Wenyu Wei, Minmin Ma, Guoke Chen, Jiajia Dong, Zekun Wu, Haiming Li, Haiming Li, Xiaobin Li

“…To explore the issue, we performed archaeobotanical analysis, grain size measurement, stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating in the excavated sites of the Zhongtianxingfucheng (ZTXFC) and Wangjiayangwan (WJYW), which were dated to between ∼4,800–4,400 BP and ∼4,200–3,900 BP, respectively. …”
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Multi-Proxy Study of a Holocene Soil Profile from Romania and Its Relevance for Speleothem Based Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions by Luchiana Faur, Virgil Drăgușin, Daniela Dimofte, Ferenc Lázár Forray, Maria Ilie, Constantin Marin, Cristian Mănăilescu, Ionuț Cornel Mirea, Cristian George Panaiotu, Barbara Soare, Alida Timar-Gabor, Maria Laura Tîrlă

“…Soil samples were analyzed for clay mineralogy, grain size, chemical composition, magnetic susceptibility, and stable carbon isotopes. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the soil is of Holocene age, and presents a depositional hiatus between 5.4 and 2.3 thousand years before the present. …”
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Unravelling the resilience of the KGK VI population from the Gumelnița site (Romania) through stable isotopes by Ana García-Vázquez, Adrian Bălășescu, Gabriel Vasile, Mihaela Golea, Valentin Radu, Vasile Opriș, Theodor Ignat, Mihaela Culea, Cristina Covătaru, Gabriela Sava, Cătălin Lazăr

“…Foxes had a diet close to dogs, which may indicate synanthropic behaviour. Radiocarbon dates were calibrated with the percentage of freshwater resources obtained by FRUITS. …”
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Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Analysis for Diet, Climate and Mobility Reconstruction in Agras (Early Iron Age) and Edessa (Roman Age), Northern Greece by Elissavet Dotsika, Maria Tassi, Petros Karalis, Anastasia Chrysostomou, Dimitra Ermioni Michael, Anastasia Elektra Poutouki, Katerina Theodorakopoulou, Georgios Diamantopoulos

“…In this article we present an isotopic analysis of human bone collagen (δ¹³C_col, and δ¹⁵N_col) and bone apatite (δ¹³C) for diet reconstruction, as well as δ¹⁸O_ap of human bone apatite for climate reconstruction, using samples from Northern Greece. Radiocarbon dating analysis was conducted on three of the Agras samples and the results (from 1000 to 800 BC) correspond to the Early Iron Age. …”
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Rupture Behavior of the Litang Fault within the Sichuan-Yunnan Active Block, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau by Shuaipo Gao, Lichun Chen, Yanbao Li, Hu Wang, Mingming Han, Jiahui Feng, Lili Lu, Sanxi Peng, Chao Jin, Langtao Liu

“…We presented the Holocene rupture behavior of the LTF based on detailed field investigations, paleoearthquake trenching, and radiocarbon dating. Specifically, we revealed 13 Holocene paleoearthquake events at four trenching sites and divided these events into 3 rupture cycles at the whole-fault scale. …”
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The marine reservoir age of Greenland coastal waters by C. Pearce, K. S. Özdemir, R. Forchhammer Mathiasen, H. Detlef, J. Olsen

“…In this study we expand on the few existing measurements of <span class="inline-formula">Δ<i>R</i></span> for the coastal waters around Greenland, by adding 92 new radiocarbon dates on mollusks from museum collections. …”
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Drivers of legacy soil organic matter decomposition after fire in boreal forests by Brian Izbicki, Xanthe J. Walker, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Nicola J. Day, Christopher Ebert, Jill F. Johnstone, Elaine Pegoraro, Edward A. G. Schuur, Merritt R. Turetsky, Michelle C. Mack

“…We collected soils from plots after the largest fire year on record in the Northwest Territories, Canada, in 2014. We used radiocarbon dating to measure Δ14C (soil age index), soil extractions to quantify N pools and microbial biomass, and a 90‐day laboratory incubation to measure the potential rate of element mineralization and understand patterns and drivers of legacy SOM C decomposition and N availability. …”
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Exploring Hypotheses on Early Holocene Caspian Seafaring Through Personal Ornaments: A Study of Changing Styles and Symbols in Western Central Asia by Rigaud Solange, Queffelec Alain, Le Bourdonnec François-Xavier, Alisher kyzy Saltanat, Ambrose Stanley H., Ledevin Ronan, Kurbanov Redzhep, Buzhilova Alexandra, Berezina Natalia, Ziganshin Rustam H., Shnaider Svetlana

“…Microscopic, morphometric, spectrometric, and SEM analyses were carried out on the material to identify how the beads were manufactured and used. New radiocarbon dating and bioanthropological data to age and sex the two skeletons discovered in the burials are provided. …”
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Empirical and theoretical approaches for assessing the local radiocarbon Marine Reservoir Effect by Queiroz Alves, E

“…Its quantification is paramount for the application of the radiocarbon dating tool in marine environments, bearing important consequences for the chronology of coastal archaeological sites. …”

A matter of time – towards an absolute chronology for the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic biocultural shift along the Danube fluvial corridor by Hopkins, RJA

“…This thesis applied recent improvements in radiocarbon dating methodologies and analysis, such as ultrafiltration (Brock et al., 2010b), single amino acid dating (Devièse et al., 2018), and KDE modelling (Bronk Ramsey, 2017). …”

Ice aprons on steep high-alpine slopes: insights from the Mont-Blanc massif, Western Alps by Ludovic Ravanel, Grégoire Guillet, Suvrat Kaushik, Susanne Preunkert, Emmanuel Malet, Florence Magnin, Emmanuel Trouvé, Maurine Montagnat, Yajing Yan, Philip Deline

“…We used a wide array of methodologies, from remote sensing (multi-source imagery) to in situ (stakes and thermal monitoring) and laboratory (radiocarbon dating and texture analysis) glaciological investigations. …”
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Origin and Pathways of Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Small Catchment in the Lena River Delta by Lydia Stolpmann, Lydia Stolpmann, Gesine Mollenhauer, Anne Morgenstern, Jens S. Hammes, Julia Boike, Julia Boike, Pier Paul Overduin, Guido Grosse, Guido Grosse

“…In addition to DOC concentrations, we use radiocarbon dating of DOC as well as stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes (δ18O and δD) to assess the origin of DOC. …”
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Origen, evolución y desarrollo de un castillo medieval del interior de Galicia. El caso del castillo roquero de San Salvador de Todea (Allariz, Ourense) by Alba A. Rodríguez Nóvoa, Adolfo Fernández Fernández, Patricia Valle Abad, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez

“…This is a multidisciplinary project; the combination of field archaeology, radiocarbon dating, material culture studies and written sources was crucial to found the medieval name of the castle, as well as the land under its rule and its main function. …”
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Metal contamination in a sediment core from Osaka Bay during the last 400 years by Kai Nils Nitzsche, Toshihiro Yoshimura, Naoto F. Ishikawa, Hiroto Kajita, Hodaka Kawahata, Nanako O. Ogawa, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Yusuke Yokoyama, Naohiko Ohkouchi

“…The core provided a continuous environmental record of the last 2300 years based on radiocarbon dating of molluscan shells. Copper, Zn, and Pb showed an initial enrichment from the 1670s AD, which could be caused by human activities due to an increasing population. …”
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