Bchron (version 3.2)

Quickcal: Quick radiocarbon calibration function

Description

Runs a quick radiocarbon calibration estimate for a single date and standrad deviation.

Usage

Quickcal(date, sd, pathtocalcurve=NULL,prob=c(68,95,99),get.output=FALSE)

Arguments

date

The 14C age of the sample

sd

The 1-sigma standard deviation (in 14C years) of a sample

pathtocalcurve

A character string giving the file path to the radiocarbon calibration curve

prob

The values of the highester posterior density regions to compute for the calibrated date

get.output

Whether to provide the date density as an output

Value

• If get.output=TRUE, then a list with the following elements
• age
  THe range of ages with positive probability density
• density
  The value of the probability density for the given age

Details

This function provides a very fast radiocarbon calibration for individual dates and standard deviations given in radiocarbon years for a given calibration curve. Suitable .14c calibration curves can be found on the web, though the latest IntCal northern hesmispher curve is included as part of the Bchron package. See BchronMCMC for more information on how to obtain this calibration curve.

References

Forthcoming

See Also

BchronMCMC to for details on accessing the calibration curve.

Examples

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