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Radiocarbon laboratories

Source: R/data.R
c14_labs.Rd

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