A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/study-bayesian-approach-radiocarbon-dating

by Hooke • 5 years ago

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ehutch79• 5 years ago

Why would archeologists difficulties getting a date be any different than anyone else?

ChainOfFools• 5 years ago

because carbondating.com only serves the 70+ singles market

kurthr• 5 years ago

They swipe right for dead people?

mckirk• 5 years ago

Because they're living in the past and are constantly digging in other people's lives?

ex3xu• 5 years ago

If you want to examine the analysis directly, the paper links the algorithm as part of the Baydem R package [0] and the R dataset used is available in its own repository [1] (docker recommended):

[0] https://github.com/eehh-stanford/baydem/

[1] https://github.com/MichaelHoltonPrice/price_et_al_tikal_rc

huetius• 5 years ago

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!

A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem

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