300003 VU Measuring time: Scientific Dating methods (2023W)

A really good source of information on basic methods is the Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods:

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-94-007-6304-3

General methods (books and articles):

Aitken, M.J. 1990. Science-based Dating in Archaeology. Longman, England.
(somewhat outdated now in places)

R.E Taylor and M.J Aitken. (eds) 1997. Chronometric dating in Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science, volume 2. Oxford University, England.

Grün, R., 2006. Direct dating of human fossils. American journal of physical anthropology, 131(S43), pp.2-48.

Radiocarbon dating

Taylor, R.E. and Bar-Yosef, O., 2016. Radiocarbon dating: an archaeological perspective. Routledge.
Bronk Ramsey, C., 2008. Radiocarbon dating: revolutions in understanding. Archaeometry, 50(2), pp.249-275.
Wood, R., 2015. From revolution to convention: the past, present and future of radiocarbon dating. Journal of Archaeological Science, 56, pp.61-72.

For pre-treatment and contamination issues:
Higham, T.F.G., Jacobi, R.M and Bronk Ramsey, C. 2006. AMS radiocarbon dating of ancient bone using ultrafiltration. Radiocarbon 48(2): 179-195.

Luminescence Dating

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/luminescence-dating

Aitken M.J. 1994. Optical dating: a non-specialist review. Quaternary Science Reviews (Quaternary Geochronology), 13, 503-508.

Argon-Argon and Potassium Argon Dating

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/potassium-argon-dating

Tephrochronology

Lowe, D.J., 2011. Tephrochronology and its application: a review. Quaternary Geochronology, 6(2), pp.107-153.
Barton, R.N.E., Lane, C.S., Albert, P.G., White, D., Collcutt, S.N., Bouzouggar, A., Ditchfield, P., Farr, L., Oh, A., Ottolini, L. and Smith, V.C., 2015. The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 118, pp.151-169.

Archaeological application of dating methods

Becerra-Valdivia, L. and Higham, T.F.G. 2020. The timing and impact of the earliest human arrivals in North America. Nature 584, 93–97.
Higham, T.F.G., Douka, K., Wood, R., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brock, F., Basell, L., Camps, M., Arrizabalaga, A., Baena, J., Barroso-Ruíz, C., Bergman, C., Boitard, C., Boscato, P., Caparrós, M., Conard, N.J., Draily, C., Froment, A., Galván, B., Gambassini, P., Garcia-Moreno, A., Grimaldi, S., Haesaerts, P., Holt, B., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M-J., Jelinek, A., Jordá Pardo, J.F., Maíllo-Fernández, J-M., Marom, A., Maroto, J., Menéndez, M., Metz, L., Morin, E., Moroni, A., Negrino, F., Panagopoulou, E., Peresani, M., Pirson, S., de la Rasilla, M., Riel-Salvatore, J., Ronchitelli, A., Santamaria, D., Semal, P., Slimak, L., Soler, J., Soler, N., Villaluenga, A., Pinhasi, R. and Roger Jacobi. 2014. The timing and spatio-temporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance. Nature 512, 306–309.
Clarkson, C., Smith, M., Marwick, B., Fullagar, R., Wallis, L.A… and Florin, S.A. (2015). The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. Journal of Human Evolution, 83:46–64.
Clarkson, C., Jacobs, Z., Marwick, B., Fullagar, R., Wallis, L... and Pardoe, C. (2017). Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature, 547:306–310.
Higham, T.F.G. 2011. European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic radiocarbon dates are often older than they look: problems with previous dates and some remedies. Antiquity 85 (327): 235–249.