Have you ever wondered about integrating accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14C data with stratigraphic evidence using Bayesian statistical models? Us neither. Yet, here we are, presenting you with two articles on the subject. Led by Ph.D. Candidate Mr. Matthew Longstaffe, the manuscripts discuss our own attempts at the above to help refine our Alabama Townsite chronologies alongside other lines of evidence.

Want to learn more, but afraid you may not understand? Try this version from the most recent volume of Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, which is written (as much as it can be) toward a more public audience alongside academic, and focuses on a single house group at Alabama.

Do you already know what we’re talking about? Try this First View version from the journal Radiocarbon, which looks at multiple house groups:

We would like to thank all SCRAP team members for their hard work and dedication that went into producing the primary field data for this research (see additional acknowledgements at the end of each article).