Areas of expertise

The staff of the Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory have a wide range of fieldwork and research interests. A few examples are given below:

• Development of the Southern Hemisphere radiocarbon calibration curve
• Dating the earliest archaeological evidence from the South Pacific
• Specialists in bone pretreatment and calibration
• Experts in marine shell dating
• Improving the radiocarbon dating technique.
• Palaeoenvironmental research
• Tephras