ABSTRACT
From early in the history of 14C dating, it was clear that effort to provide an effective means of accessing the literature dealing with the method and its applications in archaeology would be a challenging undertaking. Frederick John son was the first New World archaeologist to realize the revolutionary changes that 14C dating would bring to the conduct of archaeological scholarship. His bibliography of publications dealing with 14C applications in archaeology appeared in the first issue of Radiocarbon. Any historically oriented bibliography of 14C dating would clearly begin with the editions of Willard Libby's Radiocarbon Dating. An important vehicle for the worldwide dissemination of research data in 14C studies has been the international radiocarbon conferences. Since 1992, Radiocarbon has published the proceedings of the International Conferences on Advances in Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry, even though the majority of papers presented at these sessions are not concerned with the application of the technique to 14C measurements.
