Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory

The Waikato Laboratory is a national facility, offering radiocarbon dates by both radiometric methods (liquid scintillation spectrometry by Perkin Elmer Quantulus) and accelerator mass spectrometry. The laboratory is funded from external commercial dating services and is used to support radiocarbon dating and School of Science and Engineering research programmes. Staff in the unit are actively involved in palaeoclimate and archaeological research and have a leading role in international calibration programmes.