Symposium "Radiocarbon Dating and the Egyptian Chronology" - Oxford (United Kingdom), 17th - 18th March 2010

Research Laboratory for Archaeology & The History of Art,
University of Oxford

Symposium: Radiocarbon Dating and the Egyptian Chronology
Wednesday, 17th March 2010 - Thursday, 18th March 2010
At the Ashmolean Museum, Street: Beaumont Street, Oxford, UK

The symposium will 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 already been
invited to present and to act as discussants during the meeting.

info:
egyptian.chronology@rlaha.ox.ac.uk