CALIBRATION OF RADIOCARBON RESULTS PERTAINING TO RELATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVENTS

被引：163

作者：

BUCK, CE ^{[1
]}

LITTON, CD ^{[1
]}

SMITH, AFM ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV LONDON IMPERIAL COLL SCI TECHNOL & MED,DEPT MATH,LONDON SW7 2BX,ENGLAND

来源：

JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 1992年 / 19卷 / 05期

关键词：

RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; GIBBS SAMPLER;

D O I：

10.1016/0305-4403(92)90025-X

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

With the advent of the high precision radiocarbon calibration curve there is an increasing demand from archaeologists for results, previously reported on the radiocarbon scale, to be expressed on the calendar scale. Furthermore, there is a general realization within the archaeological community that much more information can be derived from radiocarbon dating if the samples are taken from coherent, well-chosen contexts and if any available substantive archaeological information is included in the data analysis. This paper describes how the Bayesian approach to statistical data analysis can be used for the calibration of groups of radiocarbon results in situations where archaeological information is available a priori about the relationships between the contexts being dated. Recent innovations in the implementation of the Bayesian paradigm are used and the methodology is illustrated by the analysis of data arising from two archaeological excavations. © 1992.

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页码：497 / 512

页数：16

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