armit {carbondate}R Documentation

Example real-life data - Population Decline in Iron Age Ireland

Description

2021 radiocarbon determinations collated by Armit et al. from archaeological groups operating in Ireland, to investigate whether a wetter environment around 2700 cal yr BP led to a population collapse.

Reference:
Armit, I., Swindles, G.T., Becker, K., Plunkett, G., Blaauw, M., 2014. Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at the end of the European Bronze Age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 17045–17049.

Usage

armit

Format

armit

A data frame with 2021 rows and 4 columns:

c14_age

The observed {}^{14}C ages of the samples (in {}^{14}C yr BP)

c14_sig

The uncertainty in the observed {}^{14}C ages reported by the radiocarbon laboratory

f14c

The observed F{}^{14}C concentrations

f14c_sig

The uncertainty in the observed F{}^{14}C concentrations reported by the radiocarbon laboratory

Source

http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408028111


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