Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The IntCal04 and Marine04 radiocarbon calibration curves have been updated from 12 cal kBP (cal kBP is here defined as thousands of calibrated years before AD 1950), and extended to 50 cal kBP, utilizing newly available data sets that meet the IntCal Working Group criteria for pristine corals and other carbonates and for quantification of uncertainty in both the 14C and calendar timescales as established in 2002. No change was made to the curves from 0–12 cal kBP. The curves were constructed using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) implementation of the random walk model used for IntCal04 and Marine04. The new curves were ratified at the 20th International Radiocarbon Conference in June 2009 and are available in the Supplemental Material at www.radiocarbon.org .
Source: Radiocarbon
Authors: P J Reimer, M G L Baillie, E Bard, A Bayliss, J W Beck, P G Blackwell, C Bronk Ramsey, C E Buck, G S Burr, R L Edwards, M Friedrich, P M Grootes, T P Guilderson, I Hajdas, T J Heaton, A G Hogg, K A Hughen, K F Kaiser, B Kromer, F G McCormac, S W Manning, R W Reimer, D A Richards, J R Southon, S Talamo, C S M Turney, J van der Plicht, C E Weyhenmeyer
Institutions: Queen's University Belfast, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Collège de France, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, English Heritage, University of Arizona, University of Sheffield, University of Oxford, University of Minnesota, University of Hohenheim, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, ETH Zurich, University of Waikato, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Cornell University, University of Bristol, University of California, Irvine, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Exeter, Leiden University, University of Groningen, Syracuse University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: The future of the past: A robust framework for the upgrade and development of the international radiocarbon calibration/comparison curves, The future of the past: A robust framework for the upgrade and development of the international radiocarbon calibration/comparison curves, 14C as a tool to trace terrestrial carbon in a complex lake: implications for food-web structure and carbon cycling
OpenAlex ID: W4211135859