“…Researchers from the Physics Institute of Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Archaeology, Marine Geology, Geochemistry, Oceanography areas have, for about 20 years, run collaborative projects with external AMS facilities such as PRIME Lab at Purdue University and the ones at Australian National University and UC-Irvine [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. In 2009 the radiocarbon sample preparation laboratory was set up at the Physics Institute of UFF, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, with the aim to improve existing and foster new collaborations with Brazilian archaeologists and geoscientists.…”