The spread of agriculture is an important topic of archaeological research, but relatively few
studies address the drivers behind the spread of specific species empirically. Here we use …

The application of radiocarbon dating to determine the geochronology of archaeological
sites is ubiquitous across the African continent. Accelerator mass spectrometry has made …

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 freshwater reservoir effect can result in anomalously old radiocarbon ages of samples
from lakes and rivers. This includes the bones of people whose subsistence was based on …

Debate on the ancestry of Europeans centers on the interplay between Mesolithic foragers
and Neolithic farmers. Foragers are generally believed to have disappeared shortly after the …

Objectives The island cemetery site of Ostorf (Germany) consists of individual human graves
containing Funnel Beaker ceramics dating to the Early or Middle Neolithic. However …

A dataset of 256 AMS radiocarbon dates on human skeletal remains from middle Holocene
cemeteries in the Cis-Baikal region, Siberia, and associated carbon and nitrogen stable …

Freshwater resources in past diets can lead to inaccuracies when attempts are made to
ascertain their radiocarbon ages or those of the consumers. Radiocarbon reservoir effects …

Numerous reports of successful radiocarbon dating of cremated bones have emerged
during the last decade. The success of radiocarbon dating cremated bones depends on the …

The lethally maltreated body of Vittrup Man was deposited in a Danish bog, probably as part
of a ritualised sacrifice. It happened between c. 3300 and 3100 cal years BC, ie, during the …