Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
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The Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art is a laboratory at the University of Oxford, England which develops and applies scientific methods to the study of the past.
As of 2005[update], the Laboratory is directed by Prof. Mark Pollard. Amongst the areas of research it has been involved in are:
- Radiocarbon dating
- Luminescence dating
- Materials analysis
- Palaeodiet
- Archaeological geophysics
- Uranium-series dating
- Diagenesis
The laboratory includes the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, which carries out radiocarbon dating using an accelerator mass spectrometer. The Laboratory publishes the journal Archaeometry.
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