夏商周年表的制订与^(14)C测年

^(14)C DATING TAKING PART IN THE DRAWING UP OF XIA-SHANG-ZHOU CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

夏商周断代工程的总目标是制订有科学依据的年表。研究途径主要有两条：１）根据古代天象记录，通过现代天文计算推定其年代；２）根据考古提供的系列样品作１４Ｃ年龄测定，转换成误差较小的、有考古内涵的历法年。天文推算可以得出年龄定点，１４Ｃ测年可以覆盖全面，建立起夏商周的年龄框架。两者结果互证，再同历史文献、考古研究等多学科综合研究，制订出夏商周三代年表。同过去相比，这应当是最有科学依据的。

The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project aims at draw up of chronological table scientifically. There are chiefly two research ways as: (1) Calculating the astronomical phenomena in the records of ancient literature by new method in astronomy, the collect years could be elected. (2) With 14C dating of series samples taken from well researched arehaeological sites, the calendar years could be obtained with smaller error. The former provides some points in year in whole sequence. The later makes it possible to create the Xia-Shang-Zhou chronology frame-work. Intensive synthesis by jointing efforts of historians, archaeologists, astronomers, physicists and many other scholars lead to draw up of a new Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronological table, which is a more scientific one than ever.