NERD (NEAR EAST RADIOCARBON DATES)

The archive <strong>NERD</strong> provides a collation of <strong>11,072</strong> radiocarbon dates from <strong>1027</strong> archaeological sites in the Near East from the Late Pleistocene until the Late Holocene (15 - 1.5 cal. kyr BP). These dates have been collected from existing online digital archives, and electronic and print original publications. This is an <strong>ongoing dataset</strong> that will be updated step by step with new published radiocarbon dates. A detailed description of the present dataset is available via the following data paper: <strong>Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., Lawrence, D., and Shennan, S., 2022. The NERD Dataset: Near East Radiocarbon Dates between 15,000 and 1,500 cal. yr. BP</strong>. <em>Journal of Open Archaeology Data</em>, <em>10</em>(2), 1-9. List of versions: <strong>6.0</strong> 23 September 2022 — Removal of 12 duplicates and addition of 2 new dates (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md') on the basis of a data assessment on Cyprus dates provided by Sturt Manning. <strong>5.0 </strong>25 March 2022 — 54 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). <strong>4.0 </strong>8 December 2021 — 380 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). <strong>3.0 </strong>7 April 2021 — 10 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). <strong>2.0.</strong> 7 April 2021 — 31 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). <strong>1.0 </strong> 6 April 2021 — First public release of the dataset on Zenodo