c14_labs: Radiocarbon laboratories

In joeroe/c14: Tidy Radiocarbon Data

Radiocarbon laboratories

Description

Table of active and defunct radiocarbon laboratories with their standard lab codes.

Primarily based on the list maintained by the journal Radiocarbon (updated 20 July 2021), with a few additions.

Usage

c14_labs

Format

A data frame with 297 rows and 4 variables:

lab_code

Character. Laboratory code, used to identify published dates as from this lab.

active

Logical. FALSE if the laboratory is "closed, no longer measuring 14C, or operating under a different code".

lab

Character. Name of the laboratory.

country

Character.

Details

lab_code is almost unique, but there are exceptions, and sometimes case is all that distinguishes two labs:

• "Gd" (Gliwice) and "GD" (Gdansk, defunct);

• "KI" (Kiel, now "KiA") and "Ki" (Kiev, now "Ki(KIEV)");

• "Lu" (Lund, now "LuS", formerly "LuA") and "LU" (St. Petersburg);

• "P" (Max Planck) and "P" (Pennsylvania, defunct);

• "Pi" (Pisa, defunct) and "PI" (Permafrost Institute, defunct);

• "TKA" (Univ. of Tokyo Museum) and "TKa" (Univ. of Tokyo AMS), also "TK" (Univ. of Tokyo).

References

List of known radiocarbon laboratories. Radiocarbon. Last updated 20 July 2021. http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/node/11

Wang, C., Lu, H., Zhang, J., Gu, Z. and He, K., 2014. Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98, pp.45-59. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.015

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