Abstract
There is a large gap between the fact of a radiocarbon determination and the archaeological answer to the question to which it relates. The first part of the gap is addressed by calibration, that turns a measure of 14 C activity into an estimate of a calendar date. Here is a contribution to the second part, by which a set of calibrated dates is made to provide a calendar range for the archaeological events under study. This note follows ANTIQUITY's usual convention, under which uncalibrated determinations are given in lower-case, b.p., and calibrated dates in small capitals, BP, BC or AD.
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Radiocarbon datingArchaeologyScale (ratio)Range (aeronautics)HistoryGroup (periodic table)CalibrationGeographyMathematicsStatisticsCartographyPhysicsEngineering
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Tom Aitchison,
Barbara S. Ottaway,
A. S. Al-Ruzaiza
(1991).
Summarizing a group of <sup>14</sup>C dates on the historical time scale: with a worked example from the Late Neolithic of Bavaria.
Antiquity
, 65
(246)
, 108-116.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00079345
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- 10.1017/s0003598x00079345