Search for dissertations about: "radiocarbon dating"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 44 swedish dissertations containing the words radiocarbon dating.
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16. Solar Activity Changes at the End of the Last Ice Age - Influences on Climate and Applications for Dating
Abstract : Throughout its history Earth experienced a variety of natural climate changes. By investigating their spatial and temporal evolution we can increase the understanding of the mechanisms and dynamics underlying natural climate change and improve our general comprehension of the climate system. READ MORE
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17. Exploring the limitations of 14C bomb-pulse dating on human tissue samples
Abstract : The aim of this work, which will be part of the PhD work of the author of this report, was to evaluate the precision and accuracy expected from bomb-pulse dating of human tissue, focusing on the uncertainties introduced by variation in 14C in the human diet. Such variations may be caused by releases from nuclear installations, hospitals and laboratories using 14C, use of fossil fuels as well as variations in the type of diet consumed (e. READ MORE
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18. Analysis of cardiac cell turnover in humans by radiocarbon dating and mathematical modeling
Abstract : Cardiovascular disease is the largest cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western World. Disease progression often involves a loss of contracting cells, cardiomyocytes, which leads to cardiac failure and the need for heart transplantation with time. READ MORE
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19. On Death in the Mesolithic : Or the Mortuary Practices of the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE
Abstract : The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society’s world view.Late Mesolithic shell middens in the Tagus and Sado valleys, Portugal, constitute some of the largest and earliest burial grounds known, arranged and maintained by people with a hunting, fishing, and foraging lifestyle, c 6000–5000 cal BCE. READ MORE
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20. Setting the Holocene clock using varved lake sediments in Sweden
Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to study annually laminated (varved) Holocene lake sediment in Sweden, their formation and their potential as chronological and palaeoecological archives. Five lakes with continuous Holocene varved lake sediment sequences in northern (Västerbotten) and west central Sweden (Värmland) were investigated. READ MORE