THE RADIOCARBON DATING OF SMALL UNCONVENTIONAL SAMPLES BY AMS

Conference Paper

THE RADIOCARBON DATING OF SMALL UNCONVENTIONAL SAMPLES BY AMS

Roelf BEUKENS

Abstract

The advent of AMS Radiocarbon dating has made possible the analysis of small unconventional samples, such has cultigens, foraminifera and small gastropods, fibres etc. The success of these analyses is contingent upon knowledge of the organic constituents and their appropriate chemical processing. The lessons learned from the successes and particularly the failures will be discussed.