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Comment on article by Blackwell and Buck (2008)
Journal Article
Millard, A. (2008). Comment on article by Blackwell and Buck. Bayesian Analysis, 3(2), 255-262. https://doi.org/10.1214/08-ba309b

Radiocarbon dating has come a long way since Willard Libby first conceived of the method (Libby et al. 1949; Arnold and Libby 1949) that was to earn him a Nobel Prize. Today we might consider Libby to be lucky that he could not detect the deviation f... Read More about Comment on article by Blackwell and Buck.

A critique of the chronometric evidence for hominid fossils: I. Africa and the Near East 500-50ka (2008)
Journal Article
Millard, A. (2008). A critique of the chronometric evidence for hominid fossils: I. Africa and the Near East 500-50ka. Journal of Human Evolution, 54(6), 848-874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.11.002

The chronometric dating evidence for all hominid fossils from Africa and the Near East that have previously been dated to 500–50 ka is critically assessed using the concept of chronometric hygiene, and these dates are revised using Bayesian statistic... Read More about A critique of the chronometric evidence for hominid fossils: I. Africa and the Near East 500-50ka.