Radiocarbon Dating and the Egyptian Chronology Symposium
Event Info
Host: Research Laboratory for Archaeology & The History of Art, University of Oxford
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Wednesday, 17th March 2010, 9:30 am
End Time: Thursday, 18th March 2010, 4:00 pm
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Street: Beaumont Street
City/Town: Oxford, UK
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Contact Details
Email: egyptian.chronology@rlaha.ox.ac.uk
Phone:
Link: http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/LEC_Symposium.html
Description
On 17th-18th March 2010, the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art will be hosting a symposium to discuss the results of the Egyptian Chronology Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
The Egyptian Chronology Project has investigated synchronisms between the Egyptian historical chronology and dates that have been obtained by radiocarbon measurements. A major part of the project has been to run a new series of radiocarbon measurements on Egyptian material from collections in Europe and the United States. The project has also been developing methodologies and protocols for the sampling and analysis of archaeological materials and investigating such issues as the reservoir effect, thought to have an impact on the viability of the use of radiocarbon dating in Egypt. The chronological scope under discussion during the symposium will be that from the 1st until the 21st Dynasty and the impact of the radiocarbon results on the historical chronology will be considered by specialists in the periods concerned.
Scholars from the international community have been invited to present and to act as discussants during the meeting, and a provisional schedule is available here: http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/Egypt_Schedule.pdf
There will also be a public lecture and reception at Oxford University's Natural History Museum at 6.30pm on the evening of 17th March 2010. Admission is free but booking essential by emailing egyptian.chronology@rlaha.ox.ac.uk