Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy: The OxCal Program
1995/01/01 by Christopher Bronk Ramsey · 36 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0033822200030903
Abstract
People usually study the chronologies of archaeological sites and geological sequences using many different kinds of evidence, taking into account calibrated radiocarbon dates, other dating methods and stratigraphic information. Many individual case studies demonstrate the value of using statistical methods to combine these different types of information. I have developed a computer program, OxCal, running under Windows 3.1 (for IBM PCs), that will perform both 14 C calibration and calculate what extra information can be gained from stratigraphic evidence. The program can perform automatic wiggle matches and calculate probability distributions for samples in sequences and phases. The program is written in C++ and uses Bayesian statistics and Gibbs sampling for the calculations. The program is very easy to use, both for simple calibration and complex site analysis, and will produce graphical output from virtually any printer.
Citations
Cited by
- Early Iron Age Radiometric Dates from Tel Dor: Preliminary Implications for Phoenicia and Beyond
- THE APPLICATION OF POLLEN RADIOCARBON DATING AND BAYESIAN AGE-DEPTH MODELING FOR DEVELOPING ROBUST GEOCHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS OF WETLAND ARCHIVES
- Dating the Lascaux Cave Gour Formation
- DATING THE END OF THE EGYPTIAN OLD KINGDOM: NEW CONTEXTUALIZED DATES FROM THE REIGN OF KING PEPY II
- Ground stone tool production and use in the Late Upper Palaeolithic: The evidence from Riparo Dalmeri (Venetian Prealps, Italy)
- Establishing a Chronology for Roman and Post-Roman Stanwick, Northamptonshire
- A Million Years of Mammoth Mitogenome Evolution
- Multiproxy analysis of the extinct moa genus Euryapteryx reveals new phylogenetic structure and disparity with morphometrics
- Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic
- Latest Pleistocene to nineteenth-century earthquakes on bending-moment reverse faults of the Seattle fault zone, Washington
- Alpine ice core record of large changes in dust, sea-salt, and biogenic aerosol over Europe during deglaciation
- Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history
- The conflict between sampling resolution and stratigraphic constraints from a Bayesian perspective: OSL and radiocarbon case studies
- Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph evidence of medieval farming activities in southwestern Greenland
- FRAUGHT WITH HIGH TRAGEDY: A CONTEXTUAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION OF THE MAIDEN CASTLE IRON AGE ‘WAR CEMETERY’ (ENGLAND)
- Deposition models for chronological records
- Depositional evolution of the Lower Khuzestan plain (SW Iran) since the end of the Late Pleistocene
- Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets
- The use of early pottery by hunter-gatherers of the Eastern European forest-steppe
- Late-Holocene dune activity linked to hydrological drought, Nebraska Sand Hills, USA
- StratoBayes: a Bayesian method for automated stratigraphic correlation and age modelling
- Evidence of coseismic ruptures along the Roum fault (Lebanon): a possible source for the AD 1837 earthquake
- Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus
- Paleoseismic and Postseismic Observations of Surface Slip along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault
- First confirmed finds of baleen whale from Iron Age Scania, Sweden, and their archaeological implications
- Bone spoons for prehistoric babies: Detection of human teeth marks on the Neolithic artefacts from the site Grad-Starčevo (Serbia)
- A new conservative and robust Bayesian approach for the event date model in chronology building
- Luminescence and radiocarbon dating the Naisiusiu Beds type section and timing of the Middle Stone Age/Later Stone Age transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Chronological networks in archaeology: A formalised scheme
- Evironmental change in southwestern Iran: the Holocene ostracod fauna of Lake Mirabad
- Purification of hydroxyproline for small-scale radiocarbon dating verified using archaeological bone collagen
- Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period
- Sedimentary Environment Controls Carbon Sequestration Potential of Unvegetated Intertidal Estuarine Sediments
- The characteristics of a multi-episode volcanic regime: the post-AD 960 Maero Eruptive Period of Mt. Taranaki (New Zealand)
- Late Holocene uplift of Rhodes, Greece: evidence for a large tsunamigenic earthquake and the implications for the tectonics of the eastern Hellenic Trench System
- Vegetation and climate changes during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the southwestern Mediterranean: What happened to the last Neanderthals during Heinrich stadial 4?
Related