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Is Comparability of 14C Dates an Issue?: A Status Report on the Fourth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

C Bryant ,
I Carmi ,
G T Cook ,
S Gulliksen ,
D D Harkness ,
J Heinemeier ,
E McGee ,
P Naysmith ,
G Possnert  and
E M Scott
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C Bryant
Affiliation:
NERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, Scotland
I Carmi
Affiliation:
Centre for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
G T Cook
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, Scotland
S Gulliksen
Affiliation:
National 14C Laboratory, NUST, Trondheim, Norway
D D Harkness
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
J Heinemeier
Affiliation:
AMS laboratory, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
E McGee
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Physics, University College, Dublin, Eire
P Naysmith
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, Scotland
G Possnert
Affiliation:
Tandem Accelerator Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
E M Scott*
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
J van der Plicht
Affiliation:
CIO, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
M van Strydonck
Affiliation:
Koninklijk Institut voor Kunstpatrimonium, Brussels, Belgium
*
Corresponding author. Email: marian@stats.gla.ac.uk.
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Abstract

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For more than 15 years, the radiocarbon community has participated in a series of laboratory intercomparisons in response to the issue of comparability of measurements as perceived within the wider user communities (Scott et al. 1990; Rozanski et al. 1992; Gulliksen and Scott 1995; Scott et al. 1997). In this report, we provide an update on the current 14C laboratory intercomparison and reflect on future issues linked to the laboratory intercomparison program, not least those resulting from a significant growth in the number of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) facilities providing routine dating of small samples (milligram size).

Type
II. Getting More from the Data
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2A: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 3) , 2001 , pp. 321 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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