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http://dx.doi.org/10.12654/JCS.2012.28.1.001

Radiocarbon Dating of a Wooden Board from Jeongsusa Temple Using Wiggle Matching of Quinquennial Tree-Ring Samples  

Nam, Tae-Kwang (National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage)
Park, Jung-Hun (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Hong, Wan (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Park, Won-Kyu (Department of Wood and Paper Science, Chungbuk National University)
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Journal of Conservation Science / v.28, no.1, 2012 , pp. 1-5 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper reports the application of radiocarbon wiggle-matching for Korean wooden artifacts such as buildings and Buddhist statues for precise dating. Nine quinquennial (every five-year) samples of 41 years (AD 1250-1290) for AMS radiocarbon measurements were prepared from a wooden board used for the Main Hall at Jeongsusa (temple) in Kangwhado, Korea, which was dendrochronologically dated. The 95.4% confidence interval of radiocarbon dating prior to wiggle matching was 113.3 year in average. When wiggle-matching technique was applied, it became 20 years, 5.7 times smaller than that produced without wiggle matching. The results indicated that wiggle-matching technique using the calibration curve for northern hemisphere (IntCal04) can produce precise dates for Korean wooden artifacts, at least, for the $13^{th}$ century.
Keywords
Radiocarbon; Dendrochronology; Wiggle matching; AMS; Wood; Architectural history;
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