The origins of agriculture in Iberia: a computational model by Salvador Pardo Gordó, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Oreto García Puchol, Michael Barton, Sean M. Bergin

“… Here we discuss the importance of using the rich and growing database of high-precision, audited radiocarbon dates for high-resolution bottom-up modelling to focus on problems concerning the spread of the Neolithic in the Iberia. …”
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE SITES OF THE STEPPE AND FOREST-STEPPE ALTAI by D. V. Papin

“…Both single and serial radiocarbon dates for the archaeological cultures of the reviewed the period are presented. …”
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Radiocarbon calibration and age estimation by Bronk Ramsey, C

“…Radiocarbon dating can be applied to archaeological materials which contain radiocarbon from the atmosphere or the oceans. …”

A new radiometric date and assessment of the Last Glacial megafauna of Dream Cave, Derbyshire by McFarlane, D, Lundberg, J, Van Rentergem, G, Howlett, E, Stimpson, C

“…Here we present a direct radiocarbon date of 43,330 ± 1800 yBP on the fauna, with additional comments on the fauna and the taphonomy of the site.…”

Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: chronology and dietary trends by Weber, AW, Ramsey, CB, Schulting, RJ, Bazaliiskii, VI, Goriunova, OI

“…Analyses of radiocarbon dates (all corrected for the freshwater reservoir effect) and associated stable isotope values obtained from the skeletal remains of ~650 individuals provide many new insights about Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers (HGs) of the Cis-Baikal region, Eastern Siberia. …”

Neolithic and early Bronze Age of Cis-Baikal: chronology and dietary trends by Weber, AW, Ramsey, CB, Schulting, RJ, Bazaliiskii, VI, Goriunova, OI

“…Analyses of radiocarbon dates (all corrected for the freshwater reservoir effect) and associated stable isotope values obtained from the skeletal remains of ~560 individuals provide many new insights about Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers (HG) of the Cis-Baikal region, Eastern Siberia. …”

Zur relativen und absoluten Geochronologie der Reliefentwicklung an der Küste des mittleren Südwestafrika by F. Wieneke, U. Rust

“…We found two high stands and one low stand of the sea level. We obtained radiocarbon dates of Intra-wurm age (ca. 26 000 B.P.) for the younger one of the high stands. …”
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Сhronology of early Neolithic materials of the site Sakhtysh IIa (Central Russia) by Ekaterina Dolbunova, Elena Kostyleva, Marianna Kulkova, John Meadows, Andrey Mazurkevich, Olga Lozovskaya

“…A series of new radiocarbon dates of food crust on pottery sherds which typologically belong to different stages of UVC at Sakhtysh IIa, as well as an overview of the oldest pottery are presented in this article. …”
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A Shattered Tomb of Scattered People: The Alvastra Dolmen in Light of Stable Isotopes by Elin Fornander

“… Skeletal remains from the dolmen in Alvastra are ap- proached from the perspective of isotope analyses, providing insights into dietary and residential pat- terns. Radiocarbon dates from the interred individu- als provide evidence of long-lasting burial practices which were still active when the Alvastra Pile Dwell- ing was built. …”
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China's major Late Neolithic centres and the rise of Erlitou by Zhang, C, Pollard, AM, Rawson, J, Huan, L, Liu, R, Tang, X

“…Evidence for settlement size and a new chronology constructed from radiocarbon dates emphasise discontinuities in the geographic distribution of settlements, combined with continuity in cultural practices of ritual feasts and the use of symbolic jades.…”

Understanding the local dynamics by Tamara Blagojević

“…The Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) method is applied to the earliest radiocarbon dates from Starčevo culture sites in Serbia. …”
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HYDROXYPROLINE DATING: EXPERIMENTS ON THE C-14 ANALYSIS OF CONTAMINATED AND LOW-COLLAGEN BONES by Marom, A, McCullagh, J, Higham, T, Hedges, R

“…Dating of the amino acid hydroxyproline from bone collagen has been shown to produce accurate and reliable radiocarbon dates. This article presents further application of the method demonstrating it can be used to obtain dates for both low-collagen and contaminated bones, extending the capability of 14C dating archaeological bone from conventional limits imposed by alternative pretreatment methods. …”

Early Neolithic population dynamics in the Eastern Balkans and the Great Hungarian Plain by Tamara Blagojević, Marko Porčić, Kristina Penezić, Sofija Stefanović

“…In this study, we reconstruct population dynamics in the Early Neolithic of the Eastern Balkans and the Great Hungarian Plain using frequency of radiocarbon dates as a population proxy. The method of summed calibrated radiocarbon probability distributions is applied to a set of dates recently published in Bulgaria and Hungary. …”
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The earliest traces of metallurgy in Greater Poland by Danuta Żurkiewicz, Mateusz Stróżyk, Aldona Garbacz-Klempka, Marzena Szmyt, Patrycja Silska

“…Currently, XRF analysis suggests that it is a ceramic tuyère associated with copper processing. The feature, radiocarbon dated to 3911–3714 BC (68.3% probability), most likely housed a metalworking workshop. …”
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Fire Impact on the Formation and Development of the Boreal Pine Wooded Mires by Nadezhda Goncharova, Yuri A. Dubrovskiy, Mikhail Miglovets, Ivan N. Kutyavin, Alexey Dymov

“…Based on the analysis of the botanical composition of the organic-mineral soil layer and peat, dendrochronological and radiocarbon datings, we performed the reconstruction of the development of six pine wooded sphagnum bogs located in the boreal zone of Russia. …”
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Global Processes, Regional Dynamics? by Héctor Martínez-Grau, Reto Jagher, F. Xavier Oms, Joan Anton Barceló, Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Ferran Antolín

“… The goal of this paper is to discuss the validity of radiocarbon dates as a source of knowledge for explaining social dynamics over a large region and a long period of time. …”
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Investigating the likelihood of a reservoir offset in the radiocarbon record for ancient Egypt by Dee, M, Brock, F, Harris, S, Ramsey, C, Shortland, A, Higham, T, Rowland, J

“…Some radiocarbon dates for ancient Egypt have been significantly offset from the established historical chronology (see Bonani et al., 2001). …”

Investigating the likelihood of a reservoir offset in the radiocarbon record for ancient Egypt by Dee, M, Brock, F, Harris, S, Bronk Ramsey, C, Shortland, A, Higham, T, Rowland, J

“…Some radiocarbon dates for ancient Egypt have been significantly offset from the established historical chronology (see Bonani et al., 2001). …”

Rašinovac near Ždrapanj (northern Dalmatia) – An early neolithic site by Podrug, E, McClure, SB, Perhoč, Z, Kačar, S, Reed, K, Zavodny, E

“…Excavations suggested that Rašinovac was a single-layer open-air settlement and subsequent analyses of the material culture (mostly pottery and chert) confirmed that it was an Impressed Ware site. Two radiocarbon dates also reveal that Rašinovac is among the earliest known Early Neolithic sites in the region (first century of the 6th millennium BC).…”

Environmental and Human Impact on Gully Erosion Recorded in Fan Sediments: A Case Study of the Vilnius area, Lithuania by Smolska Ewa, Szwarczewski Piotr, Česnulevičius Algimantas, Mažeika Jonas

“…On the basis of radiocarbon datings, the beginning of gully erosion was determined to be in the Middle Ages. …”
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