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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-394)and index.
• Basic elements. Fundamentals Assumptions Conventions and definitions Radiocarbon cycle Prominent applications scientific and historic — Major anomalies. Assumption anomalies Systemic elements : secular variation effects Systemic elements : reservoir effects Contamination and fractionation effects Recent and anthropogenic anomalies — Samples and sample pretreatment. Major issues Standard samples Nonstandard samples Problematic samples Sample pretreatment strategies Sample amounts and associated data — Measurement of natural radiocarbon. Radioactivity Radioactivity measurement instruments Measuring natural radiocarbon Decay/Beta counting systems Direct/ion counting systems : accelerator mass spectometry Radiocarbon age calculations Statistical constraints — Critical evaluation of radiocarbon data. General principles Sample provenience factors Sample composition factors Statistical and experimental factors Systemic factors Radiocarbon age estimates : critical evaluations Case study I: Shroud of Turin — Radiocarbon dating in Old World archaeology. The demise of the Neanderthals and early modern humans The colonization of Sahul (New Guinea and Australia) The emergence of pottery in hunting and gathering societies in East Asia The origins of agriculture in Western Asia The impact of the 8200 cal BP Cold Event on prehistoric societies in the Near East Case Study II: Santorini eruption and its archaeological implications Case Study III: King David and the Iron Age chronological debate — Radiocarbon dating in New World archaeology. Orbe Novo Pre-14C chronologies Paleoamerican Eastern North America Western North America Case study IV: Kennewick skeleton (USA) Southwestern United States Mesoamerica South America Case study V: Monte Verde (Chile) — Radiocarbon dating : origin and evolution. Discovery of radiocarbon Libby at Berkeley : 1927-1941 Libby at the Manhattan Project : 1941-1945 Libby at Chicago : 1945-1954 Critical expe
• 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 of the 14C method in archaeology and analyzes factors that affect the accuracy and precision of 14C-based age estimates. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of the method, it examines 14C dating anomalies and means to resolve them, and considers the critical application of 14C data as a dating isotope with special emphasis on issues in Old and New World archaeology and late Quaternary paleoanthropology. This volume, again a benchmark for 14C dating, critically reflects on the method and data that underpins, in so many cases, the validity of the chronologies used to understand the prehistoric archaeological record. –Back cover.

Subjects:

• Archaeological dating.
• Radiocarbon dating.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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Part of the series Digital research in the arts and humanities;Digital research in the arts and humanities.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Crowdsourcing our cultural heritage : introduction / Mia Ridge, Open University, UK — Part I. Case studies — Crowdsourcing in Brooklyn / Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, USA — Old weather : approaching collections from a different angle / Lucinda Blaser, Royal Museums Greenwich, UK — Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work : transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing manuscript collections / Tim Causer, Bentham Project Melissa Terras, Department of Information Studies, and Centre for Digital Humanities University College London, UK — Build, analyze, and generalize : community transcription of the papers of the War Department and the development of Scripto / Sharon M. Leon, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, USA — What’s on the menu? Crowdsourcing at the New York Public Library / Michael Lascarides (National Library of New Zealand) and Ben Vershbow (New York Public Library) — What’s Welsh for crowdsourcing ? : citizen science and community engagement at the National Library of Wales / Lyn Lewis Dafis, Lorna M. Hughes (National Library of Wales) and Rhian James (University of Wales), UK — Waisda? : making videos findable through crowdsourced annotations / Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Riste Gligorov and Michiel Hildebrand (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), The Netherlands — Your paintings tagger : crowdsourcing descriptive metadata for a national virtual collection / Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute) and Andrew Greg (University of Glasgow), UK — Part II. Challenges and opportunities of cultural heritage crowdsourcing — Crowding out the archivist? Locating crowdsourcing within the broader landscape of participatory archives / Alexandra Eveleigh (University College London), UK — How the crowd can surprise us : humanities crowdsourcing and the creation of knowledge / Stuart Dunn and Mark Hedges, Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, UK -

Subjects:

• Cultural property — Management.
• Cultural property — Philosophy.
• Human computation.
• Digital media — Social aspects.
• Museums — Collection management.
• Collection management (Libraries)
• Library materials — Digitization.
• Archival materials — Digitization.

Requested by Delegard, K