High-Precision Radiocarbon Age Calibration for Terrestrial and Marine Samples
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Single-year and decadal radiocarbon tree-ring ages are tabulated and discussed in terms of 14 C age calibration. The single-year data form the basis of a detailed 14 C age calibration curve for the cal ad 1510–1954 interval (“cal” denotes calibrated). The Seattle decadal data set (back to 11,617 cal BP, with 0 BP = ad 1950) is a component of the integrated decadal INTCAL98 14 C age curve (Stuiver et al. 1998). Atmospheric 14 C ages can be transformed into 14 C ages of the global ocean using a carbon reservoir model. INTCAL98 14 C ages, used for these calculations, yield global ocean 14 C ages differing slightly from previously published ones (Stuiver and Braziunas 1993b). We include discussions of offsets, error multipliers, regional 14 C age differences and marine 14 C age response to oceanic and atmospheric forcing.
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A single Northern Hemisphere 14C calibration curve (IntCal), constructed mainly from known-age wood from central and northern Europe and North America, has become the basis for calendar dates for pre- and protohistory and for other work requiring an accurate absolute time scale.
“Hence, a single NH 14C calibration curve (IntCal), constructed mainly from known-age wood from central and northern Europe and North America, has become the basis for calendar dates for pre- and protohistory and for other work requiring an accurate absolute time scale (1–4).”
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The Introduction (page unavailable) describes dendrochronologically dated wood from Germany and North America, and the Abstract identifies the resulting Seattle data as a component of the integrated INTCAL98 curve. The paper also says CALIB incorporates INTCAL98 data, but it does not establish that a single Northern Hemisphere curve had become the basis for calendar dates across pre- and protohistory and other fields. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredWe would have anticipated that the AA data on BCP and IrO should be similar to the IntCal datasets and the Hd GeO data, given the good agreement in other recent work between GeO and BCP and between GeO and IrO.
“We would therefore have anticipated that the AA data on BCP and IrO (13) should be similar to the IntCal datasets (1–4) and the Hd GeO data (38), given the good agreement in other recent work between GeO and BCP (40–42) and between GeO and IrO (1–4).”
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The Introduction identifies German and Irish oak chronologies used in the calibration work, and the Offsets section reports relatively small differences among laboratories’ radiocarbon ages. The cited paper does not directly compare German-oak and Irish-oak data or establish the specific good agreement between them asserted here; the expectation about the AA data is the citing authors’ own inference. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThere is a long history of even the most accurate 14C laboratories systematically varying in age determinations for contemporary samples compared with other laboratories by up to ~30 14C years.
“There is a long history of even the most accurate 14C laboratories systematically varying in age determinations for contemporary samples compared with other laboratories by up to ~30 14C years (1, 2).”
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- Stuiver, M., Reimer, P. J., & Braziunas, T. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- Radiocarbon
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1127-1151
- ISSN
- 0033-8222 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-5755
- OpenAlex
- W1508328190
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 24.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- bronze
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation (9310121)
- University of Washington
- Universität Heidelberg
- Universität Stuttgart
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tree-ring climate responses
- Keywords
- tree-ring chronology
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