An open-source toolkit for radiocarbon dating and calibration

作者：Maarten Blaauw, Paula Reimer · 发表于：Radiocarbon · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.1017/rdc.2026.10221 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Archaeology and ancient environmental studies、Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies、Paleopathology and ancient diseases

Abstract The analysis and interpretation of radiocarbon dates can involve many steps, such as switching between units or time-scales, assessing the impacts of contamination, applying marine or other offsets, inspecting calibration curves, calibrating dates, extracting probabilities from calibrated distributions, and analysing and plotting multiple dates. Here, we present rice , a new open-source R package which, together with other packages such as rbacon , Bchron , coffee and clam , enables users to perform such calculations within R , thus allowing most of the steps from data entry to calibration, age-modeling and subsequent analysis and interpretation of time-series to be performed within a single widely-used, multi-platform, transparent and open-source software environment. All calculation steps are documented and can be inspected, and users can also write new/enhanced functions. The package could thus prove useful in both educational and research settings.