RADON - Radiocarbon dates online 2014

Central European and Scandinavian database of 14C dates for the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. (original) (raw)

	Please use the new web service with an improved database for Neolithic and Bronze Age dating: Rado.NB. Martin Hinz, Christoph Rinne based on the work of Dirk Raetzel-Fabian, Martin Furholt, Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller, Christoph Rinne, Karl-Göran Sjögren und Hans-Peter Wotzka Source: radon.ufg.uni-kiel.de

Citation

This version of the database is no longer available. However, it remains part of the Journal for Neolithic Archaeology. Accordingly, the following citation should be used and supplemented by the date of an earlier download:

Martin Hinz, Martin Furholt, Johannes Müller, Dirk Raetzel-Fabian, Christoph Rinne, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Hans-Peter Wotzka, RADON - Radiocarbon dates online 2012. Central European database of 14C dates for the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. www.jungsteinsite.de, 2012, 1-4.

Introduction & Retrospective

In order to understand the dynamics of cultural phenomena, scientific dating in archaeology is an increasingly indispensable tool. Only by dating independently of typology is it possible to understand typological development itself (Müller 2004). Here radiometric dating methods, especially those based on carbon isotopy, still play the most important role. For evaluations exceeding the intra-site level, it is particularly important that such data is collected in large numbers and that the dates are easily accessible. Also, new statistical analyses, such as sequential calibration based on Bayesian methods, do not require single dates, but rather demand a greater number. By their combination significantly more elaborate results can be achieved compared to the results from conventional evaluation (e. g. Whittle et al. 2011).
A second premise of RADON is that of „Open Access“. This approach continues to be applied in the international research community, which we welcome as a highly positive development. The radiocarbon database RADON and the jungsteinSITE have been committed to this principle since 1999 (web.archive.org). In this database 14C data – primarily of the Neolithic of Central Europe and Southern Scandinavia – is collected and successively augmented.

RADON Team 2024: Martin Hinz, Christoph Rinne
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