age.range

Calculate the quantile age ranges of a calibrated distribution

Provides functions for the calibration of radiocarbon dates, as well as options to calculate different radiocarbon-related timescales (cal BP, cal BC/AD, C14 age, F14C, pMC, D14C) and estimating the effects of contamination or local reservoir offsets (Reimer and Reimer 2001 <doi:10.1017/S0033822200038339>). Supporting publication: Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., 2026. An open-source toolkit for radiocarbon dating and calibration. Radiocarbon <doi:10.1017/RDC.2026.10221>. The methods follow long-established recommendations such as Stuiver and Polach (1977) <doi:10.1017/S0033822200003672> and Reimer et al. (2004) <doi:10.1017/S0033822200033154>. This package uses the calibration curves from the data package 'rintcal'.

Maarten Blaauw

rice

Radiocarbon Equations

Paula Reimer

Vegard Martinsen

age.range function

<dl><dt>calib</dt>
<dd>The calibrated distribution, as returned from caldist(). Alternatively this can be multiple values (e.g., rnorm(1e3, 2450,50)), from which the quantiles/age ranges will be returned.</dd>
<dt>prob</dt>
<dd>Probability range which should be calculated. Default <code>prob=0.95</code>.</dd>
<dt>roundby</dt>
<dd>Rounding. Defaults to 0 decimals.</dd>
<dt>BCAD</dt>
<dd>Which calendar scale to use. Defaults to cal BP, <code>BCAD=FALSE</code>.</dd></dl>

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Calculate age ranges — age.range

<dl>

<dt>calib</dt>
<dd>The calibrated distribution, as returned from caldist(). Alternatively this can be multiple values (e.g., rnorm(1e3, 2450,50)), from which the quantiles/age ranges will be returned.</dd>


<dt>prob</dt>
<dd>Probability range which should be calculated. Default <code>prob=0.95</code>.</dd>


<dt>roundby</dt>
<dd>Rounding. Defaults to 0 decimals.</dd>


<dt>BCAD</dt>
<dd>Which calendar scale to use. Defaults to cal BP, <code>BCAD=FALSE</code>.</dd>

</dl>

age.range: Calculate age ranges

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