Archaeological and geological interest in applying 14C AMS to small samples

One aspect of the accelerator mass spectrometry technique is that samples can be dated which are essentially smaller than required for conventional ¹⁴C dating. This two orders of magnitude expansion offers applications of ¹⁴C which are new and in some fields of great importance. This paper attempts to list and group the various types of sample materials, with special emphasis on their role in archaeology and geology.