Radiocarbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781475742510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 596 str.

R. E. Taylor; Austin Long; Renee S. Kra

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Radiocarbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective commemorates the 40th anniversary of radiocarbon dating. The volume presents discussions of every aspect of this dating technique, as well as chronicles of its development and views of future advancements and applications. All of the 64 authors played major roles in establishment, development or application of this revolutionary scientific tool. The 35 chapters provide a solid foundation in the essential topics of radiocarbon dating: Historical Perspectives; The Natural Carbon Cycle; Instrumentation and Sample Preparation; Hydrology; Old World Archaeology; New World Archaeology; Earth Sciences; and Biomedical Applications.

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Historical Perspectives.- 1. The Early Years With Libby at Chicago: A Retrospective.- 2. The Early Radiocarbon Years: Personal Reflections.- The Natural Carbon Cycle.- 3. Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, 2500–5000 BC.- 4. The History of Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Calibration.- 5. The Present Status of Understanding of the Long-Period Spectrum of Radiocarbon.- 6. Glacial-to-Interglacial Changes in Ocean Circulation.- 7. Reconstruction of Radiocarbon Distribution in the Glacial Ocean.- 8. Radiocarbon Fluctuations and the Geomagnetic Field.- 9. Solar Forcing of Global Climate Change?.- 10. Radiocarbon and Astrophysical-Geophysical Phenomena.- 11. Cosmogenic In Situ Radiocarbon on the Earth.- Instrumentation and Sample Preparation.- 12. Sample Treatment Strategies in Radiocarbon Dating.- 13. CO2 Gas Proportional Counting in Radiocarbon Dating — Review and Perspective.- 14. Four Decades of Progress in 14C Dating by Liquid Scintillation Counting and Spectrometry.- 15. The History of AMS, Its Advantages Over Decay Counting: Applications and Prospects.- 16. Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Background, Precision and Accuracy.- Hydrology.- 17. Chemical and Isotopic Constraints on 14C Dating of Groundwater.- 18. Effects of Parameter Uncertainty in Modeling 14C in Groundwater.- 19. Numerical Modeling With Groundwater Ages.- 20. Natural Radiocarbon in Dissolved Organic Carbon in Groundwater.- Old World Archaeology.- 21. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on North African Archaeology.- 22. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on Near Eastern Prehistory.- 23. Radiocarbon Dating and the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa.- New World Archaeology.- 24. Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to the Geochronology of the Peopling of the New World.- 25. Radiocarbon Dating of Bone: To Collagen and Beyond.- 26. The Role of Radiocarbon Dating in Maya Archaeology: Four Decades of Research.- 27. Libby’s UCLA Radiocarbon Laboratory: Contributions to Archaeology.- Earth Sciences.- 28. Determining Recurrence Intervals of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes in Southern Alaska by Radiocarbon Dating.- 29. Major Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to Palynology: Past and Future.- 30. Origin of Global Meltwater Pulses.- Environmental Sciences.- 31. Radiocarbon in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane: Global Distribution and Trends.- 32. Environmental Impact of Atmospheric Carbon-14 Emissions Resulting from the Nuclear Energy Cycle.- 33. Mankind’s Perturbations of Particulate Carbon.- Biomedical Applications.- 34. Radiocarbon in the Biological Sciences.- 35. New Biomedical Applications of Radiocarbon.