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Radiocarbon : calibration and prehistory / edited by Trevor Watkins.

Contributor(s): Watkins, Trevor, 1938- | Watkins, TrevorMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1975. Description: vi, 147 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0852242824 :Subject(s): Radiocarbon dating | Prehistoric peoples | Antiquities, PrehistoricDDC classification: 930/.1/0285 LOC classification: CC78.6 | .R3
Contents:
Calibration of C-14 dates : some remaining uncertainties and limitations / R. Burleigh -- European dendrochronology and C-14 dating of timber / J.M. Fletcher -- Irregularities in the dendrochronology calibration curve / J.H. Ottaway -- An outsider's view of C-14 calibration / A.M. Snodgrass -- Correction procedures for C-14 dates / H. McKerrell -- The implications of calibration / A. Fleming -- Appendix I : Conversion tables / H. McKerrell -- Conversion of standard C-14 dates to tree-ring calender years : comparative data -- Conversion of standard C-14 dates to tree-ring calender years -- Conversion of standard C-14 dates to calender years, based on the Egyptian historical curve -- Appendix II -- The role of the archaeologist in C-14 age measurement / D.D. Harkness -- Appendix III -- Handlist of radiocarbon laboratories / T. Watkinds and D.D. Harkness.
Summary: Six papers from a seminar held at Edinburgh University on March 9, 1974.
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Six papers from a seminar held at Edinburgh University on March 9, 1974.

Bibliography: p. 144-147.

Calibration of C-14 dates : some remaining uncertainties and limitations / R. Burleigh -- European dendrochronology and C-14 dating of timber / J.M. Fletcher -- Irregularities in the dendrochronology calibration curve / J.H. Ottaway -- An outsider's view of C-14 calibration / A.M. Snodgrass -- Correction procedures for C-14 dates / H. McKerrell -- The implications of calibration / A. Fleming -- Appendix I : Conversion tables / H. McKerrell -- Conversion of standard C-14 dates to tree-ring calender years : comparative data -- Conversion of standard C-14 dates to tree-ring calender years -- Conversion of standard C-14 dates to calender years, based on the Egyptian historical curve -- Appendix II -- The role of the archaeologist in C-14 age measurement / D.D. Harkness -- Appendix III -- Handlist of radiocarbon laboratories / T. Watkinds and D.D. Harkness.

Six papers from a seminar held at Edinburgh University on March 9, 1974.