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NotCal04—Comparison/Calibration 14C Records 26–50 Cal Kyr BP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J van der Plicht ,
J W Beck ,
E Bard ,
M G L Baillie ,
P G Blackwell ,
C E Buck ,
M Friedrich ,
T P Guilderson ,
K A Hughen  and
B Kromer
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J van der Plicht*
Affiliation:
Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands. Also: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
J W Beck
Affiliation:
NSF-AMS Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
E Bard
Affiliation:
CEREGE, UMR-6635, Europole de l'Arbois BP80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cdx 4, France
M G L Baillie
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
P G Blackwell
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom
C E Buck
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom
M Friedrich
Affiliation:
Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Botanik-210, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
T P Guilderson
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
K A Hughen
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
B Kromer
Affiliation:
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
F G McCormac
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
C Bronk Ramsey
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, 6 Keble Rd., Oxford OX2 6JB, United Kingdom
P J Reimer
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
R W Reimer
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
S Remmele
Affiliation:
Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Botanik-210, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
D A Richards
Affiliation:
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, United Kingdom
J R Southon
Affiliation:
Department of Earth System Science, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
M Stuiver
Affiliation:
Quaternary Isotope Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
C E Weyhenmeyer
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
*
Corresponding author. Email: J.van.der.Plicht@rug.nl.
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The radiocarbon calibration curve IntCal04 extends back to 26 cal kyr B P. While several high-resolution records exist beyond this limit, these data sets exhibit discrepancies of up to several millennia. As a result, no calibration curve for the time range 26–50 cal kyr BP can be recommended as yet, but in this paper the IntCal04 working group compares the available data sets and offers a discussion of the information that they hold.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 3: IntCal04: Calibration Issue, Guest Editor: PAULA J REIMER , 2004 , pp. 1225 - 1238
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