A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem(santafe.edu)
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A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem
https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/study-bayesian-approach-radiocarbon-dating
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This is interesting.
Commenting mostly to save, but also, I (rank amateur, not to be taken seriously) spent some time looking at radiocarbon dating and was alarmed at the inconstancy of, and sensitivity to, calibration curves in the analysis. My intuition was that this had to do with the linear calibration problem, but this paper has taken a wholly different approach. I look forward to spending more time with the paper and playing with the R library.
Thanks for sharing!
Commenting mostly to save, but also, I (rank amateur, not to be taken seriously) spent some time looking at radiocarbon dating and was alarmed at the inconstancy of, and sensitivity to, calibration curves in the analysis. My intuition was that this had to do with the linear calibration problem, but this paper has taken a wholly different approach. I look forward to spending more time with the paper and playing with the R library.
Thanks for sharing!
Why would archeologists difficulties getting a date be any different than anyone else?
Because they're living in the past and are constantly digging in other people's lives?
They swipe right for dead people?
because carbondating.com only serves the 70+ singles market
[0]: https://github.com/eehh-stanford/baydem/
[1]: https://github.com/MichaelHoltonPrice/price_et_al_tikal_rc