First time visitors and users of the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database might wish to have some fundamental questions answered before venturing into the database itself. Choose from the following topics:

What is radiocarbon?
What is radiocarbon dating?
What can be dated?
How is radiocarbon measured?
Why do radiocarbon dates have plus-or-minus signs?
What are the age limits of radiocarbon dating?
What does BP mean?
What is the importance of association?