Palaeolithic radiocarbon chronology: quantifying our confidence beyond two half-lives
Palaeolithic radiocarbon chronology: quantifying our confidence beyond two half-lives
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DOI：
10.1016/s0305-4403(03)00070-0
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发表时间：
2003-12
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
P. Pettitt;W. Davies;C. Gamble;M. Richards
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作者：
P. Pettitt;W. Davies;C. Gamble;M. Richards
自Waterbolk将评价标准引入14 C年表以来，已经过去了三十年。尽管如此，以及其他随后的尝试，以引入质量控制在使用of 14 C数据，没有系统的程序已被考古界采用。因此，我们的数据库可能会被可疑的日期和/或可疑的日期样本之间的关联和他们打算代表的考古现象显着削弱。随着计时数据的使用变得越来越雄心勃勃，我们必须停下来评估这些数据的可靠性。在这里，我们提出了一套评估标准，考虑到考古（如协会，地层）和计时（如预处理和测量）标准。我们打算使用这样的标准来评估一个large 14 C数据集，我们已经组装调查晚冰期定居在欧洲，近东和北非，由Leverhulme信托基金的支持。我们认为，这里提出的程序至少可以成为发展更严格、更科学地使用14 C测年的基础。
It is now three decades since Waterbolk introduced evaluation criteria to14C chronology. Despite this, and other subsequent attempts to introduce quality control in the use of14C data, no systematic procedure has been adopted by the archaeological community. As a result, our databases may be significantly weakened by questionable dates and/or questionable associations between dated samples and the archaeological phenomena they are intended to represent. As the use of chronometric data in general becomes more ambitious, we must pause and assess how reliable these data are. Here, we forward a set of evaluation criteria which take into account archaeological (e.g. associational, stratigraphic) and chronometric (e.g. pre-treatment and measurement) criteria. We intend to use such criteria to evaluate a large14C dataset we have assembled to investigate Late Glacial settlement in Europe, the Near East and North Africa, supported by the Leverhulme Trust. We suggest that the procedure presented here may at least form the basis of the development of more rigorous, scientific use of14C dates.