Research

• Publications
• Preprints
• NRCF projects

ORAU was one of the first radiocarbon AMS laboratories to be founded in the early 1980s. Since then it has been a leader in radiocarbon research in a wide variety of different areas including:

• Development of new methods for pretreatment and measurement
• Applications of dating to archaeological and environmental research
• Radiocarbon dating in conjunction with genetic research
• Environmental records of radiocarbon and their implications for Earth Science
• Statistical analysis of radiocarbon and other chronological data

To see the full range of research the best source of information is our publications. We also have a very small selection of preprints directly available on this website.

Please see the School of Archaeology website for further details on projects based in Oxford.

There is a full list of projects supported by the NERC radiocarbon facility at the NRCF website.

Examples of recent research involving ORAU include:

• The New Zealand Kauri Research project
• The Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project
• Palaeochron
• The Lake Suigetsu Project
• The Egyptian Historical Chronology Project
• OxCal software development
• Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions (RESET)