A Novel Approach to Selecting Samples for Radiocarbon Dating

The chronology of Neolithic dispersal in Central and Eastern Europe

“…This allows us to use dates based on various materials including charcoal unidentified to species. Any significant improvement in this direction would require field work for sample collection using procedures more stringent than before, as discussed by Christen and Buck [10] and Buck and Christen [6]. Such improved samples would then justify the application of advanced statistical methods, e.g., the Bayesian approach [7].…”

Analysis of Neolithic human remains discovered in southern Italy

“…Interpretation of the results was enhanced by the analysis of various bone fragments from each of the skeletons by high resolution mass spectrometry. Radiocarbon analysis was conducted on both cortical and trabecular bone samples (Buck and Christen, 1998;Gkiasta et al, 2003).…”

High-resolution chronology for the Mesoamerican urban center of Teotihuacan derived from Bayesian statistics of radiocarbon and archaeological data

“…Full use of available information from dating and archaeological study provides a chronology with improved resolution, making it possible to differentiate occupations or periods for the excavated site. The use of Bayesian statistical models for the construction of chronologies has gained importance in the last years, and archaeology is one of the main disciplines applying these tools in the generation of chronologies incorporating chronometric data and other chronological information (Buck et al, 1991;Buck and Christen, 1998;Buck, 2004). For a detailed Bayesian radiocarbon calibration framework see Buck (2004) and references therein.…”