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PRETREATMENT PROTOCOLS PERFORMED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE (RICH) PRIOR TO AMS 14C MEASUREMENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2020

Marine Wojcieszak Open the ORCID record for Marine Wojcieszak [Opens in a new window] ,
Tess Van den Brande ,
Gaia Ligovich  and
Mathieu Boudin
Marine Wojcieszak*
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH), Brussels, Belgium Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Tess Van den Brande
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH), Brussels, Belgium
Gaia Ligovich
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH), Brussels, Belgium
Mathieu Boudin
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH), Brussels, Belgium
*
*Corresponding author. Email: marine.wojcieszak@gmail.com.
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Abstract

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH) radiocarbon (14C) laboratory in Brussels, Belgium, has acquired experience for pretreating samples with 60 years of involvement in 14C dating, and the implementation of routine protocols. These procedures as applied to wood, seeds, charred materials, bones, ivory, textiles (silk, wool, cotton, linen), paper, shells, cremated bones, mortars, lead carbonates, sediments, etc. are described in detail in this paper. They are evaluated against reference materials.

Keywords

pretreatmentradiocarbon AMS dating
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Radiocarbon , Volume 62 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. e14 - e24
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