Radiocarbon Laboratories and Studies

The fifty-year-old technique called Radiocarbon Dating completely altered the study of archaeology forever. Here are links to software, laboratories, and other studies concerning the dating process.

Radiocarbon Calibration Update
New calibration curves for radiocarbon dates older than 12,000 years are reported in the journal Radiocarbon, and promise to shed light on some of the most puzzling of archaeological problems.

CHRONO Centre
The CHRONO Centre at Queen's University, Belfast, conducts radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and stable isotope dating.

The Radiocarbon Revolution
Why the invention of radiocarbon dating meant revolutary changes to the science of archaeology: part of the Timing is Everything series on dating techniques used in archaeology from your guide.

Beta Analytic
AMS and radiocarbon dating, and groundwater dating from the world's largest radiocarbon dating service.

Calib
A software program that calibrates results from radiocarbon laboratories; from the Queen's University at Belfast/U Washington. Site also features a marine reservoir correction database funded by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory.

Geochron Laboratories
Specializes in isotope analyses for researchers in the fields of geology, economic geology, geochronology, archaeology, anthropology, and hydrology, and for environmental, metabolic, and food adulteration studies.

Oxford University (England)
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art; site includes a lucid, comprehensible discussion of radiocarbon calibration.

Radiocarbon
The quarterly journal of radiocarbon dating techniques, Radiocarbon may now be subscribed to and read online. Site includes tables of contents for all issues, information for authors, and a musical interlude, when you click on the 14C symbol.

University of Waikato (New Zealand)
Web inromation on the 14C process.

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