Hierarchical Bayesian modeling for combining Dates in archaeological context

A Bayesian approach is proposed for combiningdates from different dating methods used in archaeology.This modeling provides an automatic way to penalize outlying data. Examples are provided from different archaeological contexts involving radiocarbon,luminescence and archaeomagnetic results. This new combinationprocedure is also applied to the wiggle-matching process indendrochronological dating. Calculations are based on MCMC numericaltechniques and can be performed using the cross-platform ChronoModelapplication which is free, open source software (FOSS)