A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO THE CALIBRATION OF FLOATING TREE‐RING CHRONOLOGIES USING RADIOCARBON DATES
作者:
R. M. CLARK,
C. RENFREW,
期刊:
Archaeometry
(WILEY Available online 1972)
卷期:
Volume 14,
issue 1
页码: 5-19
ISSN:0003-813X
年代: 1972
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1972.tb00046.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTSThe bristlecone pine tree‐ring calibration of radiocarbon dates, while necessitating changes of up to 700 years in Holocene chronology before 1000b.c., offers possibilities of very accurate dating when14C determinations from floating tree‐ring chronologies are utilized.A statistical approach assuming linear regression is developed and used to position the floating tree‐ring chronologies at Swiss neolithic sites, using radiocarbon dates published by Ferguson, Huber and Suess and by Suess. The statistical method gives objective estimated dates with estimates of error related, in a consistent and explicit manner, to the inherent inaccuracies of the radiocarbon dates. Most of the method may readily be tested by standard statistical procedures. For the particular cases considered the assumptions of linearity and parallelism are investigated, and the precision of the estimated dates is comparable with that claimed by Suess and his co‐workers. A precise calibration is thus possible without utilizing the short‐term fluctuations in the Suess calibration curve. The analysis, while avoiding some assumptions of Suess and his collaborators, offers an explicit procedure for establishing controlled teleconnections with the Ferguson dendrochronology, and supports their emphasis on the importance of radiocarbon dates from floating tree‐ring sequences for the construction of precise prehistoric c
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