Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
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Should archaeologists care about 14C inter-comparisons? Why? A summary report on SIRI [PDF]
Radiocarbon (14C) dating is used widely in many projects as a basis for the creation and testing of chronological constructs. 14C measurements are by their nature complex and the degree of sample pretreatment varies considerably depending on the material.
Cook, G.T., Naysmith, P., Scott, E.M.
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A Database of Radiocarbon Dates for Palaeoenvironmental Research in Eastern Africa
Radiocarbon dating is one of the most widely available and applied techniques to develop Late Quaternary chronologies of many ecosystems and is, thus, utilized in Quaternary studies, archaeology, hydrology, geomorphology, palaeoanthropology ...
Colin Courtney Mustaphi, Rob Marchant
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The myths and realities of Bayesian chronological modeling revealed [PDF]
We review the history of Bayesian chronological modeling in archaeology and demonstrate that there has been a surge over the past several years in American archaeological applications.
Hamilton, W. Derek, Krus, Anthony M.
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The Chronology of Neolithic-Eneolithic in the Steppe Zone of the Volga Basin
Introduction. The steppe zone of the Volga basin is interesting in connection with the study of the Orlovskaya, Cis-Caspian, and Khvalinskaya cultures.
Aleksandr Vybornov +4 more
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Towards a radiocarbon chronology of the Late-Glacial: Sample selection strategies [PDF]
This paper outlines a dating program designed to test the reproducibility of radiocarbon dates on different materials of Late-Glacial age (plant macrofossils, fossil beetle remains, and the "humic" and "humin" chemical fractions of limnic sediments ...
Bengtsson +14 more
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The Mississippian fin de siècle in the middle Cumberland region of Tennessee [PDF]
Bayesian chronological modeling is used to investigate the chronology for a large-scale human depopulation event during the Mississippian period (AD 1000–1600) known as the Vacant Quarter phenomenon.
Cobb, Charles R., Krus, Anthony M.
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Talking About My Generation: the Date of the West Kennet Long Barrow [PDF]
Thirty-one radiocarbon results are now available from the West Kennet long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework.
Bayliss, A +2 more
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Radiocarbon chronology of the Neolithic in the Povolzhye (Russian Eastern Europe)
The radiocarbon dates obtained on materials from archaeological sites of the Low and Middle Povolzhye are presented in this article. The analysis of the complex of radiocarbon dates allowed a determination of the most appropriate dates for forming ...
Alexander Alexeevich Vybornov +3 more
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Iron Age to Medieval entomogamous vegetation and Rhinolophus hipposideros roost in south-eastern Wales (UK) [PDF]
Karst cave systems are well developed in Wales (UK) and, in some instances, constitute important bat roosts. Ogof Draenen, near Blaenavon in south-east Wales, is the most recent major cave discovery (1994) with already > 70 km of passages explored ...
Bronk +24 more
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