
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit
@OxRadiocarbon
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Radiocarbon laboratory working collaboratively across disciplines & providing a high precision radiocarbon dating service. Part of the @UniofOxford
Oxford, England
Joined June 2015
Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; @school_of_arch @isotopesUK.
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Does your project need some 14C dates? The next deadline for NEIF is 26th March. Please get in contact if you are thinking of applying. Open to PIs, post-docs and students. 1-99 dates. @school_of_arch @isotopesUK
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RT @chirikure: Exciting news for West Africa, Africa, and the world.
theguardian.com
With a campus-style layout inspired by the ancient city, Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art has the potential ‘to be amongst the best in the world for holding returning objects’
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The new Oxford Doctoral Training Program in Environmental Research (ILESLA) has been announced. Please get in contact if would like to pursue a radiocarbon based DPhil (=PhD) with us, and need funding for your scholarship and research! @school_of_arch
environmental-research.ox.ac.uk
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Registration for the annual NERC Radiocarbon Short Course is now live @school_of_arch @isotopesUK. NERC DTP students can come for free (email us) and the @QuaternaryRA_UK have 2 scholarships.
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Spent a couple of inspiring days at @butserfarm with the @school_of_arch MSc Arch Sci students. What a wonderful start to their course. Lots of ideas about organic materials, processing and inbuilt ages. and copper smelting is pretty cool as well! Thank you Therese and Kat.
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RT @chirikure: Ensuring our facilities @school_of_arch remain world class. Major investment to boost Oxford’s heritage science capabi….
ox.ac.uk
The University of Oxford is to play a leading role in a major £80m research and innovation investment to harness the latest technology to safeguard heritage for future generations. The funding, from
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RT @wessexarch: Last year our team ran an archaeological dig at HMP Erlestoke, a category 2 prison in Wiltshire, in the hopes of giving the….
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One week before the NEIF deadline! There is still time to write a proposal if you need some 14C dates for your project, but please do get in contact asap. @school_of_arch @isotopesUK
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Do you need funding for 14C dates? Do you want one of these 'targets' to contain your sample? If so, the next NEIF deadline is rapidly approaching; 9th October. You can even come to the lab and learn how to make a target! @isotopesUK @school_of_arch
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Christopher Ramsey has contributed to a new review lead by @Heaton_T_J of Miyake events and why we are so excited about them. Single year dating, solar storms and carbon cycle. @school_of_arch .
nature.com
Nature - Understanding how extreme solar storms affect radiocarbon dating has made it possible to obtain calendar ages with annual precision, and future studies could yield insights into...
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Lab work can be very hypnotic. Our volunteer @LingwaShi is trying to extract 14C datable protein from tooth enamel. Slow and patient, but very exciting!
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Paxti Perez-Ramallo was a visiting researcher with the ORAU when he did the dating for this study on what is likely to be the bones of the bishop whose ideas laid the foundation for the Camino de Santiago
cambridge.org
Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia? An attempt to identify the discoverer of St James's tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain) - Volume 98...
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RT @school_of_arch: We are delighted to share that our Green Impact team has been awarded the Gold Award for Environmental Sustainability t….
arch.ox.ac.uk
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The near complete absence of people during MIS3 in central Spain is being filled; people were visiting the Iberian interior during MIS3 and producing the Aurignacian! Great to see OxA-dates used so nicely for such important sites - by Nohemi Sala @CENIEH.
science.org
Human presence at the Malia site reshapes understanding of early Upper Paleolithic population dynamics in southern Europe.
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Would you like some 14C dates? The next NEIF deadline is 9th October. We love to help with project design and are able to give advice on your applications, so please get in contact if you would like to apply. @isotopesUK @school_of_arch
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