Calibration of Radiocarbon Ages by Computer

Abstract

A PC-based computer program for automatic calibration of 14 C dates has been developed in Turbo-Pascal (version 4.0). It transforms the Gaussian 14 C dating result on the 3σ level into a real calendar age distribution. It uses as a calibration curve a spline function, generated along the calibration data points as published in the Radiocarbon Calibration Issue. Special versions of the code can average several 14 C dates into one calibrated result, generate smoothed curves by a moving average procedure and perform wiggle matching.