Radiocarbon dating

Probably the best known and most important application of AMS is dating according to the ¹⁴C method. Therefore, the ¹⁴C method plays an important role in our research program. Together with partners from various scientific disciplines we are working on several formal and informal research projects. Worth mentioning is the special research area SCIEM2000 ("The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC") of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), which was completed in 2011.

A method developed here for ¹⁴C dating of DNA (¹⁴C produced by nuclear tests in the 1950s and early 1960s) with carbon samples from some μg is now also being used to investigate earth and environmental science issues.

Contact:		Monika Bolka, Peter Steier
References:		Manning, S. W., Birch, J., Conger, M. A., Dee, M. W., Griggs, C., Hadden, C. S., Hogg, A. G., Ramsey, C. B., Sanft, S., Steier, P., & Wild, E. M. (2018). Radiocarbon re-dating of contact-era Iroquoian history in northeastern North America. Science Advances, 4(12), [0280]. Wild, E. M., Kutschera, W., Meran, A., & Steier, P. (2019). ¹⁴C Bomb Peak Analysis of African Elephant Tusks and its Relation to CITES. Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research, 61(5), 1619-1624. Steier, P., Liebl, J., Kutschera, W., Wild, E. M., & Golser, R. (2017). Preparation Methods of μg Carbon Samples for ¹⁴C Measurements. Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research, 59(3), 803-814. Bergmann, O., Liebl, J., Bernard, S., Alkass, K., Yeung, M. S. Y., Steier, P., Kutschera, W., Johnson, L., Landén, M., Druid, H., Spalding, K., & Frisén, J. (2012). The Age of Olfactory Bulb Neurons in Humans. Neuron, 74(4), 634-639.