Radiocarbon dating uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure time
and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. With a half-life of 5,700±30 years …

Tephrochronology (from tephra, Gk 'ashes') is a unique stratigraphic method for linking,
dating, and synchronizing geological, palaeoenvironmental, or archaeological sequences or …

The first historically documented pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis began as the
Justinianic Plague in 541 within the Roman Empire and continued as the so-called First …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

The BRITICE‐CHRONO consortium of researchers undertook a dating programme to
constrain the timing of advance, maximum extent and retreat of the British–Irish Ice Sheet …

There have been significant changes in sea level over the past two million years, and a
complete understanding of natural cycles of change as well as anthropogenic effects is …

When a carbon reservoir has a lower radiocarbon content than the atmosphere, this is
referred to as a reservoir effect. This is expressed as an offset between the radiocarbon ages …

Pyrogenic carbon (PC; also known as biochar, charcoal, black carbon and soot) derived
from natural and anthropogenic burning plays a major, but poorly quantified, role in the …

For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did
Columbus bring the disease from the New World to the Old World? Or did syphilis exist in …