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The Oxford University Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art has had a long-standing interest in the analysis of metals. An example of... 

As a result of these inconsistencies, the very same amino acid extracts that had been used to produce the contentious AAR dates were independently dated by the AMS method at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford (OxA numbers Bada et al., 1984) and the NSF Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, University of Arizona, Tucson (AA numbers). 

In 1986, researchers at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, reported on how the radioactive carbon-14 isotope can be separated from other atoms in a sample by use of accelerator mass spectrometry, thus making it possible to derive more accurate chronologies from much smaller archaeological or anthropological specimens. For details, consult Hedges/Gowlett reference listed. 

The application of the Diffusion-Adsorption model to dating bone (by AP) was funded by a NERC grant to Robert Hedges at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford. The U-series date profiles shown here were measured at the NERC U-series dating facility at Open University, and the laser ablation U-series profile was measured at the Research School for Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra in collaboration with Steve Eggins and Rainer Griin. 

The Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded in 1987, is a center for research and training in the chemical analysis of archaeological materials, one of a few such facilities in the USA. The laboratory and its continuing operation are made possible by grants from the US... 

Archaeological chemistry is done in laboratories that have the equipment, instruments, and facilities necessary for such research. The instruments range from microwave- to room-size and require elaborate electrical, plumbing, gas, cooling, and ventilation installations. Needless to say the instruments, their installation,... 

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