Program for the evaluation of TL-brick dating: "ADAM-1-EVA"

The construction of an automated TL-Reader (ADAM-1) at the CTU in Prague wa s taken as an opportunity to create a whole new software package for the ev aluation ("EVA") of TL-dates. The program was developed using Delphi, as it is more user-friendly than pure Pascal, offers a strong graphic platform a nd allows flexibility in data management. This was important, as the progra m was conceived to either interact directly with ADAM-1, or to be operated independently for data evaluation and management. The software package cons ists of two discrete yet combinable components: one for the calculation of the TL mean date, using all raw data obtained from ADAM-1 and peripheral me asurements; the other for the evaluation of systematic, random and context errors of individual samples and sample groups. All steps in the calculatio ns are also graphically available, e.g. glow curves, plateau test, TL vs. d ose dependence and charts summarising the results of all calculations for a n individual sample and a given context. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.