2000/01/01 by Patrick Ashmore, G T Cook, D. D. Harkness · 8 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Accelerator mass spectrometry #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Computer science #Database #Geology #History #Library science #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Radiocarbon dating #The Internet #Web site #World Wide Web
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0033822200053030
published in Radiocarbon 42(1), 41-48 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2000/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
For the majority of dating laboratories and their respective user communities, the journal Radiocarbon is no longer regarded as the medium for primary publication of radiocarbon measurements. In compliance with editorial policy, the emphasis has long since moved towards the publication of research papers on technological enhancements and applications of 14 C as well as other cosmogenic isotopes and this has left a requirement for an alternative medium for the publication of date lists per se . In the late 1980s, an International Radiocarbon Data Base was proposed by Renee Kra (then the managing editor) but limitations in computer and communications technologies together with the inevitable financial implications meant that this timely concept could not be taken to completion. In the last year, we have taken advantage of the development of the worldwide web to compile a database of 14 C age measurements of a Scottish archaeological nature which can be found at the web address http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ .