SGS Beta-SAS Radiocarbon Dating Award
Forecasted
SGS Beta-SAS Radiocarbon Dating Award supports graduate students and early career researchers with creative dating analyses to address archaeological questions in underrepresented regions and research themes.
Funder: Society for Archaeological Sciences
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application and recommendation letters)
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: Applicants must be graduate students or eligible early career researchers with current, dues-paid SAS membership.
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, aiming to extend dating applications into geographic and thematic research areas underrepresented in existing work.
The program emphasizes “doing more with less”: a carefully chosen date should have an outsized impact on a specific project or a broader thematic or regional question. Examples include demonstrating the feasibility of dating a novel material, establishing a date for a site or region historically lacking absolute geochronology, or redating a controversial sample or site feature using modern methods.
