Abstract

The opportunity of using small samples sizes and a variety of material types has improved the research opportunities for those investigators employing radiocarbon analyses as an aspect of their investigative programmes. The solutions to problems of chemistry are still of utmost importance to the reliability of the dating results. The final dendro-corrected result must also be seen in perspective as a probability statement. These issues are discussed within the framework of ISOTRACE results on a suite of samples from Ontario spanning the time range 7000 B.P. to A.D. 1650 and will examine radiocarbon results from the sites of Renshaw, Ball, Warminster, Ossossane, Mienburg, Kirch, Benson and others.