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RADIOCARBON
Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 1151-1164Publisher
UNIV ARIZONA DEPT GEOSCIENCES
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200034214
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/E019129/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This article presents a new approach to the construction of radiocarbon calibration curves. The Bayesian methodology was developed specifically to facilitate construction of the 2009 updates to the internationally agreed (14)C calibration curves known as IntCal09 and Marine09. The curve estimation approach taken uses Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, specifically a Metropolis-within-Gibbs sampler, which offers improved flexibility and reliability over the approaches used in the past. In particular, the method allows accurate modeling of calibration data with (14)C determinations that arise from material deposited over several consecutive calendar years and that exhibit complex uncertainty structures on their calendar date estimates (arising from methods such as wiggle-matching and varve counting).
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