Archaeology · Dating & Scientific Techniques
A topic within Dating & Scientific Techniques, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
2 works
Willard F. Libby
Sets out how the near-constant production of carbon-14 by cosmic rays, and its steady decay once an organism dies, gives archaeology a single physical clock, and describes the counting method Libby built to read it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Argues that a set of individually imprecise radiocarbon dates can be combined with a site's stratigraphic order, using Bayesian statistics, into a calendar chronology far tighter than any one date allows on its own.