SGS Beta-SAS Radiocarbon Dating Award
Forecasted
SGS Beta-SAS Radiocarbon Dating Award supports graduate students and early career researchers with radiocarbon analysis to advance archaeological questions, especially in underrepresented research areas.
Funder: Society for Archaeological Sciences
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application and recommendation letter)
Funding Amounts: One free Standard AMS radiocarbon date at SGS Beta; voucher valid for one year
Summary: Supports creative radiocarbon dating in archaeology and related disciplines, especially underrepresented geographic and thematic research areas.
Key Information: Open only to graduate students and early career researchers who are current dues-paid SAS members.
Description
The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS), in collaboration with SGS Beta, runs this annual competition to support creative uses of radiocarbon dating in archaeology and related disciplines. The award provides a single AMS radiocarbon analysis, with particular interest in geographic and thematic research areas underrepresented in existing radiocarbon dating work.
Its central priority is “doing more with less”: showing how one carefully chosen date can have an outsized impact on a specific project or a broader regional or thematic question. Examples include testing whether a novel material can be dated, establishing absolute geochronology for a previously undated site or region, or redating a controversial sample or site feature using modern methods.
