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Calibration of radiocarbon dates: tables based on the consensus data of the Workshop on Calibrating the Radiocarbon Time Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Jeffrey Klein ,
J C Lerman ,
P E Damon  and
E K Ralph
Jeffrey Klein
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
J C Lerman
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
P E Damon
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
E K Ralph
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
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A calibration is presented for conventional radiocarbon ages ranging from 10 to 7240 years BP and thus covering a calendric range of 8000 years from 6050 BC to AD 1950. Distinctive features of this calibration include 1) an improved data set consisting of 1154 radiocarbon measurements on samples of known age, 2) an extended range over which radiocarbon ages may be calibrated (an additional 530 years), 3) separate 95% confidence intervals (in tabular from) for six different radiocarbon uncertainties (20, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300 years), and 4) an estimate of the non-Poisson errors related to radiocarbon determinations, including an estimate of the systematic errors between laboratories.

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Research Article
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Radiocarbon , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1982 , pp. 103 - 150
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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