Köln/Neuwied, May 2007
CalPal is a tool for scientific research in Palaeolithic Archaeology and Palaeoclimatology written in Fortran 95, based on the Lahey LF95 Fortran Compiler version 7.1 (www.lahey.com). All Programs and the Graphic User Interface make substantial use of the Fortran 9x GUI Toolset Winteracter (version 7.1), developed by Interactive Software Services Ltd, GB-Huntingdon (www.winteracter.com). Radiocarbon Database SQL-management using the ODBC-interface (Open Data Base Connectivity) is made possible by the Canaima Fortran F90SQL libraries (www.canaimasoft.com). The spline representation of the Radiocarbon Calibration Curve is based on the IMSL Fortran Library v4.0 of Visual Numerics, Inc. (www.vni.com).
DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND CARTOGRAPHY
Included in CalPal are a large number of Radiocarbon and Palaeoclimatological datasets, as well as complete Databases. We most greatfully acknowledge the individual support by Tjeerd van Andel (Cambridge), Michael Baales (Neuwied), Utz Böhner (Köln), Reid and Robert Bryson (Madison), William Davies (Southampton), Richard Fairbanks (Lamont), Pieter Grootes (Kiel), Nick Shackleton (Cambridge), Martin Street (Neuwied), Pierre Vermeersch (Leuven), and Antje Völker (Kiel). An interface to the GIS program PanMap version 0.9.6 is integrated in CalPal by courtesy of Michael Diepenbroek and coauthors H.Grobe and R.Sieger (www.pangaea.de). An interface to the GIS program Globalmapper version 8.0 is integrated in CalPal by courtesy of (www.globalmapper.com).
The Cambridge Stage 3 Project Palaeolithic Radiocarbon Database is provided by William Davies and Tjeerd van Andel. The INQUA Palaeolithic database is provided by Pierre Vermeersch. The European Neolithic Radiocarbon Database Radon is provided by Dirk Raetzel-Fabian. The Near East Early Holocene Radiocarbon Database is provided by Utz Böhner and Daniel Schyle. It incorporates data first developed by Gary Rollefson to study the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and then substantially enlargened by Utz Böhner, Laurens Thissen, Frédéric Gérard, Damien Bischoff, and Agathe Reingruber to cover the Early Holocene prehistory in Greece, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia. The further addition to the CalPal 14C-database collection is for Egypt and Sudan by Stan Hendrickx. Many more collegues, institutions, and data centers have contributed to the data collected and stored in Calpal, and to whom we apologise because it is completely illusive to list all your names. For your work and support we are extremely thankful. We hope that your work and results are all the more valuable when hereby further distributed for the purpose of additional scientific research.
CONDITIONS OF USE
CalPal may be reproduced and freely distributed for educational purposes, provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, provided that the rights of third parties are acknowledged, and provided that no financial profits are associated directly or indirectly with the use of CalPal. When using CalPal and the data incorporated in CalPal it is imperative to cite both the original authors and the original references. Simply citing CalPal as a source of data and results will under no condition charge as an original reference.
SCIENTIFIC DISCLAIMER
The Authors disclaim both legal and scientific warranty for using or not using this software. We kindly ask all CalPal users to be cautious, in that much of the data incorporated in CalPal has been changed, adapted, recoded, rescaled, corrected or otherwise manipulated by the Authors of CalPal, whether knowledgeable or not, or in some other way, for internal purposes and requirements, in comparison to the original source. The data may also include features and properties hidden or unknown to the user. As a result, the data may not in all cases further qualify as true and original. Perhaps.
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