Radiocarbon dating covers the most recent span of geo-archaeological time, back to c.55,000 years BP. The list of applications and disciplines it can be used for is wide-ranging and burgeoning. It is used widely in dating aspects of the Earth's environmental, oceanographic and atmospheric systems. It is used as a tracer in investigating residence times of carbon in soils, rivers, oceans and lakes, and to document the movements of oceanic water and its circulation and exchange with the atmosphere. It is also used in aerosol science, and is crucial to studies of Earth's changing climate. This wide relevance of the 14C isotope means that one must be something of a polymath to understand, and it was for this reason that in 1981 the first '14C and Archaeology' Symposium was held. Its aim: to provide a wider forum for studies of prehistoric chronology than would normally be allowed at the Radiocarbon conferences. The 4th Symposium was held in Oxford in April 2002, and the proceedings that follow comprise thirty-one papers, covering archaeological dating research from the Altai to Antarctica, and from the Palaeolithic to the Medieval. (Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monograph 62, 2004)

Preface

HIGHAM, T.F.G., BRONK RAMSEY, C., and OWEN, D.C.

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List of participants

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RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION

Calibration at all ages?

VAN DER PLICHT, J.

1

(8)

Glacial radiocarbon age calibration: the CalPal program

WENINGER, B., and JÖRIS, O.

9

(8)

METHODOLOGY

Luminescence and radiocarbon dating of lake sediments from East Antarctica

FRECHEN, M., SCHWAB, M.J., and SUTTER, I.

17

(18)

Non-destructive plasma-chemical extraction of carbon from organic artefacts

STEELMAN, K.L., and ROWE, M.W.

35

(8)

COLONISATION AND EXTINCTIONS

Visualising the Neolithic transition in Europe

RUSSELL, T., AND STEELE, J.

43

(10)

Colonisation of northern Eurasia by early modern humans as viewed through the evidence of radiocarbon dating

DOLUKHANOV, P., and SHUKUROV, A.

53

(10)

WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

Human-mammoth interaction during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Yenisei River Basin (Siberia)

ORLOVA, L.A., KUZMIN, Y.V., and DEMENTIEV, V.N.

63

(10)

AMS radiocarbon dating of micro samples from the rock paintings of Malakula (Vanuatu)

ZOPPI, U., DAVID, B., WILSON, M., HUA, Q., WILLIAMS, A., and WATCHMAN, A.

73

(10)

Desert settlement in the central Negev: first 14C indication of rainwater-harvesting agriculture in the Iron Age

BRUINS, H.J., and VAN DER PLICHT, J.

83

(16)

Radiocarbon dating of the pottery artefacts from the Sejuk Neolithic site

YOUN, M., KIM, I.C., PARK, J.H., KIM, J.C., and AHN, J.

99

(6)

Reliability of 14C AMS dating of rat and bird bone: implications for the timing of New Zealand Holocene vertebrate extinctions

BEAVAN ATHFIELD, N.

105

(14)

The chronology of the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods in the north Jordan Valley: new 14C determinations from Pella in Jordan

BOURKE, S., LAWSON, E., HUA, Q., and ZOPPI, U.

119

(8)

14C dating of mound 24 of the kurgan group near Vinogradnoe village, Ukraine

GÖRSDORF, J. RASSAMAKIN, Y., and HÄUSLER, A.

127

(8)

AMS radiocarbon dating of Rattus exulans bone from the Kokohuia site (New Zealand)

HIGHAM, T.F.G., BRONK RAMSEY, C., PETCHEY, F.J., TOMPKINS, C., and TAYLOR, M.

135

(18)

The timing of pottery origins in the Russian Far East: 14C chronology of the earliest Neolithic complexes

KUZMIN, Y.V., JULL, A.J.T., BURR, G.S., and O'MALLEY, J.M.

153

(8)

AMS radiocarbon dating of resins from Spirit Cave, Thailand

LAMPERT, C.D., GLOVER, I.C., HEDGES, R.E.M., HERON, C.P., HIGHAM, T.F.G., STERN, B., SHOOCONGDEJ, R., and THOMPSON, G.B.

161

(10)

First chronological data for the unique Tsar burial mound Arzhan-2 in Tuva, central Asia

CHUGUNOV, K.V., DERGACHEVE, V.A., NAGLER, A, PARZINGER, H., POSSNERT, G., SEMENTOV, A.A., SCOTT, E.M., VAN GEEL, B., VAN DER PLICHT, J., VASILIEV, S.S., and ZAITSEVA, G.I.

171

(6)

HIGH RESOLUTION DATING

14C wiggle-matching of the Ulandryk-4 (Early Iron Age, Pazyryk cultural complex) floating tree-ring chronology, Altai Mountains, Siberia

SLUSARENKO, I.Y., KUZMIN, Y.V., CHRISTEN, J.A., BURR, G.S., JULL, A.J.T., and ORLOVA, L.A.

177

(8)

Dating the king's tombs of the kingdom of Old Silla, Korea

KIM, I.C., KIM, J.C., PARK.J.H., YOUNG, M.Y., KIM, S.B., and LEE, E.S.

185

(8)

High precision 14C dating of a Bronze Age tree-ring chronology from the pile-dwelling settlement of Montpenedre, Herault, southern France

OBERLIN, C., LEROY, F., and GUIBAL, F.

193

(8)

Radiocarbon and calendar chronology of Ulandryk 4 and Pazyryk 2 tombs

HAJDAS, I., BONANI, G., and SEIFERT, M.

201

(8)

EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Kastanás and the chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age

JUNG, R., and WENINGER, B.

209

(20)

The oldest Early Neolithic (Starcevo Culture) settlements in Croatia: Zadubravlje-Du•ine and Slavonski Brod-Galovo

KRAJCAR BRONIC, I., MINICHREITER, K., OBELIC.B., and HORVATINCIC, N.

229

(18)

Radiocarbon and archaeological evidence for a possible climate-induced cultural change on the Balearic Islands around 2700 BP

VAN STRYDONCK, M.

247

(16)

An improved chronology for the Neolithic of central and eastern Europe

DOLUKHANOV, P., SHUKUROV, A., GRONENBORN, D., TIMOFEEV, V.I., ZAITSEVA, G.I., and SOKOLOFF, D.D.

263

(18)

The radiocarbon chronology of the German Upper Palaeolithic: fifteen years of cooperation with ORAU

STREET, M., and TERBERGER, T.

281

(22)

Interpretation of 14C dates of the Mesolithic site of Friesack, Germany

GORSDORF, J., and GRAMSCH, B.

303

(10)

Radiocarbon dates from the Kremlin and the 14C chronology of Iron Age and Medieval archaeological sites in Moscow

ALEXANDROVSKIY, A.L., KRENKE, N.A., VAN DER PLICHT, J., SULERZITSKIY, L.D., PANOVA, T.D., and CHICHAGOVA, O.A.

313

(8)

Dating of a medieval painting prepared on the new AMS sample preparation lines in Lecce

D'ELIA, M., QUARTA, G., SANAPO, C., LAUDISA, M., RIZZO, A., and CALCAGNILE, L.

321

(6)

Radiocarbon dates of two urnfields at Velzeke (Zottegem, East Flanders, Belgium)

DE MULDER, G., and VAN STRYDONCK, M.

327

(14)

Building archaeology: the case of Aghinolfi Castle (MS), Italy

GALLO, M.

341

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