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Calibration of Radiocarbon Ages by Computer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Johannes Van Der Plicht  and
W G Mook
Johannes Van Der Plicht
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Westersingel 34 9718 CM Groningen, The Netherlands
W G Mook
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Westersingel 34 9718 CM Groningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

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A PC-based computer program for automatic calibration of 14C dates has been developed in Turbo-Pascal (version 4.0). It transforms the Gaussian 14C dating result on the 3σ level into a real calendar age distribution. It uses as a calibration curve a spline function, generated along the calibration data points as published in the Radiocarbon Calibration Issue. Special versions of the code can average several 14C dates into one calibrated result, generate smoothed curves by a moving average procedure and perform wiggle matching.

Type
III. Global 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 805 - 816
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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