Conveners
Applications in Archaeology
- Hong-Chun Li ()
Applications in Archaeology
- Hong-Chun Li (NTU)
Applications in Archaeology
- Hiroyuki Matsuzaki (The University of Tokyo)
Description
AMS tools to study and date ancient humans and human activity.
The research on the Origin and Development of Chinese Civilization is a hot topic and involving many complex questions, such as the elements, process and paths of civilization. To establish the precision chronological frame is one of the most important aspects related to Chinese Civilization. The major scientific research project about Chinses civilization supported by the state that combines...
From the second millennium BC, two great cultures formed, traded and fought across Eurasia – one based on horses and herding that stretched from Mongolia to the European steppe, and the other, to the south that consisted of established and newly formed states from the Middle East to the Chinese Central Plains.
Horsepower: interactions between China, Mongolia and the steppe 2000–0 BC...
A decade long research project has revealed a chronological sequence of Australian Aboriginal rock art that spans, at least, 20,000 years.
The Kimberley region in north-western Australia is renowned for its rich concentration of rock art, traditionally believed to originate from the Pleistocene. Despite its cultural and historical importance, the direct radiometric dating of the older art...
We use in-situ cosmogenic 10Be to date the construction of stone platform from the Kalasasaya UNESCO Heritage archaeological site at the ancient city of Tiwanaku, Bolivia. The unique site is located within the altiplano valley of Tiwanaku at 3870 masl near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca. The monuments at Tiwanaku were constructed as ceremonial and civic buildings of exceptional precision...
Absolute dating of lead carbonates - cerussite (PbCO3) and hydrocerussite (2PbCO3.Pb(OH)2 - by the radiocarbon method have been developed recently. Lead white cosmetics, pigments and paints have been successfully dated (Beck et al., 2018- 2020; Hendriks et al., 2019; Messager et al., 2021, 2022). The dating was made possible by the lead white synthesis method, which uses horse manure as a...
Radiocarbon dating plays a pivotal role in establishing reliable chronologies in both archaeological and paleoenvironmental studies, spanning over 55,000 years. Pottery, pervasive throughout the Holocene archaeological record, offers a crucial avenue for dating human activity, employing a combination of relative methods such as typology and seriation, alongside absolute techniques. Traditional...
The preservation of bone collagen at many ancient archaeological sites in Southern China is often poor, complicating the process of effective radiocarbon dating. To address this, our study has employed a method focused on extracting hydroxyproline—a non-essential, but abundant amino acid in collagen involved in human metabolism. This approach was chosen due to its presumed stability and...
AMS 14C dating results on the samples from three archaeological sites: one is the Early Bronze Age in the Stanitsa Dinskaya, Krasnodar kray, North Caucasus, Southern Russia (45°14'42.258"N, 39°12'26.573"E) and two sites of the Early Iron Age in the Samara region, Middle River Volga area: Koptevo (50.1976N, 53.323E) and Manchikha (53°19'32.7"N, 50°06'6.2"E). There is very little radiocarbon...
Extant elephant species have been protected from excessive international commercial trade by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna at least since 1989. However, the legal protection usually allows for some exemptions, such as antiques, that might serve as a loophole for trade in modern ivory.
Comparison of the individual legislations of chosen...
This study dated the tree ring sequence ages of the upper deck, hull deck, mast holes, keel, etc. of the “Nanhai(南海) I” shipwreck using the method of AMS radiocarbon dating. The data were corrected using Bayesian methods by Oxcal calibration software. The samples representing the time of ship sinking, such as various plant seeds and animal bones, were also dated. According to the calibration...
