PRETREATMENT PROTOCOLS PERFORMED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE (RICH) PRIOR TO AMS 14C MEASUREMENTS

2020/07/27 by Marine Wojcieszak, Tess van den Brande, Tess Van den Brande +2 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1017/rdc.2020.64

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH) radiocarbon ( 14 C) laboratory in Brussels, Belgium, has acquired experience for pretreating samples with 60 years of involvement in 14 C dating, and the implementation of routine protocols. These procedures as applied to wood, seeds, charred materials, bones, ivory, textiles (silk, wool, cotton, linen), paper, shells, cremated bones, mortars, lead carbonates, sediments, etc. are described in detail in this paper. They are evaluated against reference materials.

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