Suggests difficulties in estimating calendar ages for wood samples from Roman Europe, highlighting the need for validation.
This study suggests that there may be considerable difficulties in providing accurate calendar age estimates in the Roman period in Europe, between ca. AD 60 and ca. AD 230, using the radiocarbon calibration datasets that are currently available. Incorporating the potential for systematic offsets between the measured data and the calibration curve using the ΔR approach suggested by Hogg et al. (2019), only marginally mitigates the biases in calendar date estimates observed. At present, it clearly behoves researchers in this period to “ caveat emptor” and validate the accuracy of their calibrated radiocarbon dates and chronological models against other sources of dating information.
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