Radiocarbon dating
Creators
- 1. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas, UNAM, 04510 Mexico D.F. (Mexico)
Description
The application of the radiocarbon dating in archaeology has not served only to solve problems related with the establishment of chronologies, but also in the development of archaeological methods of excavation and interpretation. This has been possible because the dating method by radiocarbon provides a common temporary scale that transcends the cultural and regional frontiers. It is even spoken of the revolution that has meant the fact that the application of this method has allowed to the archaeologist to pass from the construction of chronologies until the evaluation and dynamic interpretation of the archaeological data to build theories. This work explains and compares methods for the detection of 14 C, as the gas counting, the liquid scintillation counting and the mass spectrometry with accelerators. (Author)
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Spanish)
- Fechamiento por radiocarbono
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- El Colegio de Michoacan, A.C.
- Imprint Place
- Mexico D.F. (Mexico)
- ISBN
- 970-679-156-6
- Imprint Title
- Archaeometry: nuclear and conventional techniques applied to the archaeological research
- Imprint Pagination
- 224 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 181-196
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Mexico
- Country of Input or Organization
- Mexico
- INIS RN
- 37022653
- Subject category
- S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- AGE ESTIMATION; CALIBRATION; CARBON 14; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DECAY; DIAGRAMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IMAGES; SAMPLING
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DATA; EVALUATION; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; RADIOISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES