PRETREATMENT PROTOCOLS PERFORMED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE (RICH) PRIOR TO AMS <sup>14</sup>C MEASUREMENTS
Marine Wojcieszak, Tess van den Brande, Gaia Ligovich, Mathieu Boudin
Abstract
ABSTRACT The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH) radiocarbon ( 14 C) laboratory in Brussels, Belgium, has acquired experience for pretreating samples with 60 years of involvement in 14 C dating, and the implementation of routine protocols. These procedures as applied to wood, seeds, charred materials, bones, ivory, textiles (silk, wool, cotton, linen), paper, shells, cremated bones, mortars, lead carbonates, sediments, etc. are described in detail in this paper. They are evaluated against reference materials.
Topics & Concepts
Radiocarbon datingArchaeologyCultural heritageWoolMortarAccelerator mass spectrometryGeologyHistoryArchaeology and ancient environmental studiesPacific and Southeast Asian StudiesPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology