Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
Radiocarbon laboratory working collaboratively across disciplines & providing a high precision radiocarbon dating service.
Part of the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford
A node of the NERC-AHRC funded National Environmental Isotope Facility
Part of the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford
A node of the NERC-AHRC funded National Environmental Isotope Facility
Looking forward to Monday and filling this space! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Looking forward to Monday and filling this space! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
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...
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...
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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...
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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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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...
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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/
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/
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.
www.abc.net.au
October 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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/
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/
Copper smelting with the new MSc students at the wonderful @butserancientfarm.co.uk So much charcoal used!
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Copper smelting with the new MSc students at the wonderful @butserancientfarm.co.uk So much charcoal used!
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📸 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
@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
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📸 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
@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
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...
Exciting new joint funded doctoral studentship between the School and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Service. Apply by 19 Sept.
www.arch.ox.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
September 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
The Methodology and Physics of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners
hdl.handle.net
August 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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.
August 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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...
On the impact of micro-CT scanning on radiocarbon dating of fossil material: A cautionary note for the palaeoanthropological community and beyond | Radiocarbon | Cambridge Core
On the impact of micro-CT scanning on radiocarbon dating of fossil material: A cautionary note for the palaeoanthropological community and beyond
www.cambridge.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
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...
New Episode! | The Mystery of the Standing Stone | Time Team X Crew
YouTube video by Time Team Official
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March 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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...
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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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.
www.science.org
March 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
For something a bit more lighthearted. www.bluey.tv/blog/watch-a...
www.bluey.tv
March 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
For something a bit more lighthearted. www.bluey.tv/blog/watch-a...
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-...
The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample
archit.web.ox.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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-...
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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
February 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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
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
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...
conted.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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
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
January 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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.
January 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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.