AIDA (Archive of Italian radiocarbon DAtes)

The archive AIDA provides a collation of 4,629 radiocarbon dates from 1,050 archaeological sites in Italy from the Late Mesolithic until Late Antiquity (11 - 1.5 kya BP). These dates have been collected from existing online digital archives, and electronic and print original publications. List of versions: 6.1 2 December 2025 - correction of the coordinates of 3 radiocarbon dates from the archaeological site "Grotta del Pertuso" on the basis of a data assessment provided by Stefano Costa (Ministero della Cultura, Italy). 5.0 9 April 2022 — 589 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). 4.0 3 March 2022 — 35 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). 3.0 13 January 2022 — Removal of some duplicates and 4 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). 2.0 13 January 2022 — Removal of some duplicates and 4 new dates added (update of the files 'References.txt', 'nerd.csv', and 'Readme.md'). 1.0 3 August 2021 — First public release of the dataset on Zenodo