scholarly journals Wood from the Netherlands around the Time of the Santorini Eruption Dated by Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon

Radiocarbon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Kuitems ◽  
Johannes van der Plicht ◽  
Esther Jansma
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Calibration Curve ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Few Data ◽  
The Bronze Age

ABSTRACTEighteen new high-precision radiocarbon (14C) dates obtained for dendrochronologically dated wood from Bodegraven, the Netherlands are reported. They are relevant for establishing the revised calibration curve around the time of the Bronze Age Santorini eruption. Most of our new data overlap within one sigma with IntCal13, but a few data points are slightly increased in 14C age compared to IntCal13.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon to Calendar Date Conversion: Calendrical Band Widths as a Function of Radiocarbon Precision

Radiocarbon ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. G. McCormac ◽  
M. G. L. Baillie
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Calibration Curve ◽  
Band Width ◽  
Calendar Date ◽  
Range Determination ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Bronze Age

Accurate high-precision 14C dating (i.e., ± 20 yr precision or less on the 14C date) provides the narrowest calendrical band width and, hence, the best age range determination possible. However, because of the structure in the 14C calibration curve, the calendar age range for a given 14C precision is not constant throughout the calibration range. In this study, we quantify the calendar band widths for a range of 14C precisions throughout the calibration range. We show that an estimate of the likely calendar band width in years can be obtained from the expression: Band width (yr) = 2.12 x 14C precision (1 σ) + 54.6. We also show that calendar band widths are widest around 4000 BP at the start of the Bronze Age, and become narrow through the later Bronze Age and Iron Age and back into the Neolithic.

scholarly journals A Note on Single-Year Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, AD 1510–1954

Radiocarbon ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minze Stuiver
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Calibration Curve ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Precision Measurements ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Age Determinations

Most data in this Calibration Issue are based on radiocarbon age determinations of tree-ring samples with dendrochronologically determined calibrated (cal) ages. For high-precision measurements, substantial sample amounts are needed, and the processed wood usually spans 10 or 20 tree rings. Thus, the calibration curve data points usually have decadal, or bidecadal, spacing. These curves, to be used for the calibration of samples formed over 1 or 2 decades, may not be fully applicable to samples (leaves, twigs, etc.) formed in a single growing season.

scholarly journals Pretoria Calibration Curve for Short-Lived Samples, 1930–3350 BC

Radiocarbon ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Vogel ◽  
AnneMarie Fuls ◽  
Ebbie Visser ◽  
Bernd Becker
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Calibration Curve ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Standard Calibration ◽  
Sample Set ◽  
Radiocarbon Calibration

The high-precision radiocarbon calibration curve for short-lived samples (1–4 yr) of the early historical period (3rd millennium BC) presented previously (Vogel et al. 1986) has been further substantiated and extended to link with a similar curve produced by de Jong for part of the 4th millennium BC (de Jong & Mook 1980). The precise dendrochronological age of the sample set measured by de Jong has finally been fixed (de Jong, Mook & Becker 1989), so that the two sets now cover the period 1930–3900 BC, i.e., the Early Bronze Age and Late Chalcolithic periods of the Middle East. The standard calibration curve for the two sets is presented by Vogel and van der Plicht (1993).

The Bronze Age Round Barrows of Kent

1992 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. Grinsell
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Full List ◽  
The North ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Selection Of

About 170 round barrows and 15 flat graves from Kent are here recorded, almost all on the Chalk. In addition there are at least as many ring-ditches, mostly of ploughed-out round barrows, in Thanet, only a small selection of which are here included as a full list is being prepared by the Trust for Thanet Archaeology. Nine sites have yielded primary central inhumations and ten have contained primary central cremations. Four sites have yielded burials in their encircling ditch. Warrior equipment has come from two sites, and ‘Wessex’ interments from another two. Barrow Wouldham 1/THAN contained a central primary cremation in a four-post mortuary structure with parallels in the Toterfout-Halve-Mijl cemetery in the Netherlands, with which area relations are suggested. One site (Lydden 1/DOV) is identified as the Ellenbeorge of an Anglo-Saxon land charter. Several Bronze Age round barrows were used by the Jutes and Saxons for their intrusive burials, and there are two instances of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery being sited to adjoin a Bronze Age round barrow. More than twenty sites have recorded local names of which the most frequent general name is Mount. Some of the best surviving barrows are beside or near the North Downs Way and the Pilgrims' Way.

Investigating Burnt Mounds in Clydesdale during Motorway Construction

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
John A Atkinson ◽  
Camilla Dickson ◽  
Jane Downes ◽  
Paul Robins ◽  
David Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Short Account ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Bronze Age

Summary Two small burnt mounds were excavated as part of the programme to mitigate the impact of motorway construction in the Crawford area. The excavations followed a research strategy designed to address questions of date and function. This paper surveys the various competing theories about burnt mounds and how the archaeological evidence was evaluated against those theories. Both sites produced radiocarbon dates from the Bronze Age and evidence to suggest that they were cooking places. In addition, a short account is presented of two further burnt mounds discovered during the construction of the motorway in Annandale.

A Neolithic Structure and Bronze Age Activity at West Flank Road, Drumchapel, Glasgow

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-128
Author(s):  
Gavin Macgregor ◽  
Irene Cullen ◽  
Diane Alldritt ◽  
Michael Donnelly ◽  
Jennifer Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Research Division ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Age Features ◽  
The Bronze Age

Summary A programme of archaeological work was undertaken by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) at West Flank Road, Drumchapel, in close proximity to the site of the prehistoric cemetery of Knappers. This paper considers the results of excavation of a range of negative features, including earlier Neolithic and Bronze Age pits and postholes. The earlier Neolithic features date to c. 3500–3000 BC and are interpreted as the partial remains of a subrectangular structure. The Bronze Age features may relate to ceremonial activities in the wider area. The significance of these remains is considered in relation to the site of Knappers and wider traditions during the fourth to second millennia BC.

Martyn Barber Bronze and the Bronze Age

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-195
Author(s):  
Brendan O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Bronze Age

From the bronze age to the iron age

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Grecian ◽  
Safwaan Adam ◽  
Akheel Syed
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
The Bronze Age
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