Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit

Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site Teotônio is a pre-Columbian riverine archaeological site located in southwestern Amazonia, in a region with diverse cultural traditions and linguistic…

It's always so great to see our MSc Arch Science student research published. Congratulations McKenzie on your paper 'Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site'. #archaeologicalscience #graduatestudy @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.

Deep Time Australia

An epic story > 65,000 years in the making

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples have walked, worked & celebrated this land for millennia. Their cultures endure, alive in every story, every place, and every moment today

www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/

To be matched with the competition for the longest/ thinnest length of wool spun... and an appreciation for how much is needed for the smallest hat.

Copper smelting with the new MSc students at the wonderful @butserancientfarm.co.uk So much charcoal used!

📸 friendly but mildly competitive cordage making @butserancientfarm.co.uk yesterday as tutors
@rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere

Exciting new joint funded doctoral studentship between the School and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Service. Apply by 19 Sept.

Amazing PhD studentship avaliable on Investigating Early Electrum Coinage with Neutrons and Muons available in the @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social jointly with ISIS. Deadline 19th Sept! www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/exci...

One month before the next NEIF deadline! Please get in contact asap if you want to apply for some radiocarbon dates in this round. For UK based students, post-docs and beyond. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

If you want to know more (or just about everything) about AMS, check out a brand new online book by one of the old masters Keith Fifield (ANU) with input from another - Martin Suter (ETH); hdl.handle.net/1885/733767269

It's that time again... If you are UK based and would like to apply for radiocarbon dates, applications are due to the next NEIF round on 8 October 2025. 1-100 dates and training provided.

Does microCT reduce the amount of collagen we can extract from a bone/tooth for dating and stable isotope work? We think it might. With Mathieu Duval and Laura Martin Frances @cenieh.bsky.social; www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

YouTube video by Time Team Official New Episode! | The Mystery of the Standing Stone | Time Team X Crew

We dated some charcoal for @timeteam.bsky.social, and it showed that the standing stone at Farley Moor was indeed Bronze Age. Lovely to see how the project came together! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCM...

Great to meet you Tom. Thanks for all the great questions and enthusiasm!

It was great to see you Sam! Thanks for coming along.

Direct hydroxyproline radiocarbon dating of the Lapedo child (Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Leiria, Portugal) The Lapedo child is now firmly dated to 27,780 to 28,550 cal B.P.

Dr Bethan Linscott has published new dates for the Lapdo child, and another HYP case study showing how it can be useful to date really poorly preserved bone. Lovely work Bethan!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The people filming were very, very cool.

For something a bit more lighthearted. www.bluey.tv/blog/watch-a...

The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

Congratulations to Jamie Cameron, Senior Chemistry Technician in our #Radiocarbon lab who is a 2024 Science Council CPD Award Winner. @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social @socsci.ox.ac.uk

Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...

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; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
@isotopesuk.bsky.social

@isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

A magazine of targets (or cathodes) from the IonPlus MICADAS AMS after measurement for radiocarbon dating at the ORAU

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. You can even come to the lab to work on your own samples if you'd like. www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit have joined BlueSky! Very happy to be here. We'll continue to post a little on the other place (esp. NEIF deadlines and jobs), but hope to transition over here.