Radiocarbon dating in archaeology: Interdisciplinary aspects and consequences (an overview)

摘要: This paper is an overview of recent developments in the radiocarbon dating most frequently analyzed archaeological materials – wood, short-lived plants, and human animal bones draws attention to two sets consequences. Firstly, while has become more accessible archaeologists thanks increase number laboratories, a lowering prices, reduction sample sizes, it also grown far dependent on fields research, other than traditional chemical pretreatment samples physics involved their measurement, such as wood anatomy botany, stable isotope-based diet studies, geochemistry, micromorphology, statistics, etc., which are not easily by vast majority users (and sometimes familiar practicing archaeologists). Secondly, given that, one hand, there still much scope for research and, other, sites limited resource, need create archives containing detailed documentation whenever possible, residues.