CalPal - University of Cologne Radiocarbon Calibration Program Package

14C DataBases

This is an overview of the 14C databases presently included in the download version of CalPal. During setup of CalPal, these databases are installed in their primary "stand-on-alone" version in MS-Excel-format. You have access to these databases in the directory c:\calpal_a\database.

During CalPal-runtime, the data can then be selectively (SQL) imported through the ODBC-interface, by which procedure they are converted from XLS-format into CalPal-ASCII-format. You have access to these ASCII-files in the CalPal-Database-Cartography Dialog.

When site coordinates are available (see below: "Database Cartography=Yes"), the site-distributions can be mapped, also using the CalPal-Cartography dialog.

To add your own 14C-database set to the CalPal database dialog, you simply copy your file in xls-Format to the directory c:\calpal_a\database. You can then access the 14C-database in CalPal using the ->CARTOGRAPHY dialog via ->SELECT FILE. Please adhere to the xls-format as given in the accompanying datasets (the ODBC xls->ASCII import functions are sensitive to all deviations).

The complete set of variables presently covered by the 14Cdatabases in CalPal are:
LABNR/C14AGE/C14STD/C13/MATERIAL/SPECIES/SITE/
CULTURE/PHASE/COUNTRY/LATITUDE/LONGITUDE

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