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How reliable are radiocarbon laboratories? A report on the Fourth International Radiocarbon Inter-comparison (FIRI) (1998–2001)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Elisabetta Boaretto ,
Charlotte Bryant ,
Israel Carmi ,
Gordon Cook ,
Steinar Gulliksen ,
Doug Harkness ,
Jan Heinemeier ,
John McClure ,
Edward McGee  and
Philip Naysmith
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Elisabetta Boaretto
Affiliation:
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Charlotte Bryant
Affiliation:
NERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, Scotland
Israel Carmi
Affiliation:
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Gordon Cook
Affiliation:
SUERC, Scotland
Steinar Gulliksen
Affiliation:
NUST, Norway
Doug Harkness
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Jan Heinemeier
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus, Denmark
John McClure
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Edward McGee
Affiliation:
University College Dublin, Eire
Philip Naysmith
Affiliation:
SUERC, Scotland
Goran Possnert
Affiliation:
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Marian Scott*
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Hans van der Plicht
Affiliation:
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Mark van Strydonck
Affiliation:
KIK, Belgium
*
*marian@stats.gla.ac.uk
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Abstract

Radiocarbon laboratories undertake rigorous programmes of internal quality control (QC) and overall quality assurance (QA). In a laboratory “inter-comparison” samples of the same age are dated at different laboratories using a range of techniques and the results are then compared. The authors summarise the results of the fourth of these scientific audits.

Keywords

Radiocarbon datingquality assuranceoutlierlaboratory inter-comparison
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 295 , March 2003 , pp. 146 - 154
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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