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Radiocarbon calibration softwares :
BCal - Online Bayesian radiocarbon calibration tool (Developed at the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, this allows users to obtain calibrated dates on data sets entered via a Web browser.)
http://bcal.shef.ac.uk/

CAL25 : the Groningen calibration program (updated with 1998 calibration data set.)
http://www.cio.phys.rug.nl/HTML-docs/carbon14/cal25.html

Calib 5.0 : radiocarbon calibration program (University of Washington, Quaternary Isotope Laboratory and Queen's University of Belfast). You can download the program to use it in your lab, or you can use the online radiocarbon calibration program. The downloadable version 5.0 (March 2005) is also available for Mac OSX and Linux Red Hat.
http://www.calib.org/

CalPal - Cologne radiocarbon CALibration and PALaeoclimate package (Designed for research on glacial C-14 age conversion)
http://www.calpal.de/

CalPal Online : fast and easy to use, single date calibration, dates between 50.000 and 1 BP will be calibrated using the calibration curve CalPal2004_jan
http://www.calpal-online.de/

OxCal v.3.10 calibration program (The OxCal program is intended to provide radiocarbon calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental stratigraphy. The program runs under Microsoft Windows on IBM PC compatibles.)
http://www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk/O/oxcal.php?group=O

Radiocarbon databases online search :
14C Near Eastern Radiocarbon Context Database (Epipalaeolithic, Pre Pottery Neolithic, Pottery Neolithic, and Chalcolithic sites in the Near East and adjacent regions)
http://www.context-database.de/

Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/info/c14.html

Banque de données des dates radiocarbones de Lyon
http://www.univ-Lyon1.fr/carbon14/banadora.html

C14 Dates of Long-Mounds (Earthen Long-Barrows), Tumuli, Megalithic Tombs and Gallery-Graves from North and Central Europe
http://www.comp-archaeology.org/C14MegtCalib.htm

California Radiocarbon Database
http://www.californiaprehistory.com/radiodb1.html

Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (the main CARD database: over 6000 dates of archaeological and vertebrate palaeontological sites in Canada) (in english and in french)
http://www.canadianarchaeology.com/radiocarbon/card/card.htm

CANeW : Central Anatolian Neolithic e-Workshop Radiocarbon databases
http://www.canew.org/carbondatabase.htm

Carbon-dating search : Scotland
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/archaeology/wwd_carbondatingsearch.htm

New Zealand archaeological radiocarbon database
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/nzcd/search.pl

Online 14C databases (does not have all the 14C labs...! e.g. Lyon lab is not there)
http://www.radiocarbon.org/Info/index.html

Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit : http://www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk/O/results.php
Date List Index : http://hercules.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~orau/dl_index.html
Number Index : http://hercules.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~orau/dl_oxa_index.html
Site Index : http://hercules.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~orau/dl_site_index.html

RADON - Radiokarbondaten online (radiocarbon database for Neolithic and Early Bronze Age data sets from Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark and adjacent regions - is truly a zip file to be downloaded with some 2000 14C dates +/- up to date to the year 2000)

Radiocarbon dating labs :

Radiocarbon labs around the world
http://www.radiocarbon.org/Info/index.html
Radiocarbon methodology :
Methods : click here
http://www.archeodroit.net/anthro/Contents/dates.html
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Benzene synthesis system, Radiation physics and radiocarbon laboratories, Copywright University College, Dublin, Ireland
Benzene synthesis system,
Radiation physics and radiocarbon laboratories,
University College, Dublin, Ireland