CALIBRATION OF MANGERUD'S BOUNDARIES

The calibration of arbitrarily defined (in some sense, conventional) ages, given in conventional radiocarbon years BP, is now becoming necessary because the term radiocarbon age is used less often in archaeological and Quaternary practice. The standard calibration procedure is inappropriate here because Mangerud's boundaries are not measurement results. Thus, another approach to the problem is proposed in order to model the natural situation of many, uniformly distributed, dated samples, which should be similarly divided by the original and calibrated boundary. However, the result depends on the value of the typical measurement error and is not unequivocal.