Radiocarbon measurements, third

The impact of this new technique, which was called Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), on the radiocarbon and archaeologist communities, was immediate and revolutionary. The introduction of AMS is indeed recognized by some as the third revolution in radiocarbon dating[22,23] and it has provided the opportunity to date very precious finds by collecting very small samples. The interest in developing the technique of AMS was so evident that, just few years after the measurements cited above, a first dedicated AMS system (based on a tandem accelerator) was designed and built [24] then, the first dedicated... 

Third International Radiocarbon Intercomparison (TIRI) standard wood samples (5,6,8) and four different archaeological charcoal samples (2,3J8) for comparison with dates previously determined at other laboratories using standard combustion methods. These measurements were utilized to demonstrate the viability of the plasma extraction technique for dating rock paintings from around the world with charcoal and inorganic pigments. 

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