The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...

我们在学校学习世界史时，都避不开哥伦布这个探险家。西方人首次抵达新大陆被认为是在1492年10月12日，当时意大利人克里斯托弗-哥伦布横跨大西洋来到现在的巴哈马联邦的圣萨尔瓦多岛，当时的哥伦布认为这片大陆就是印度。

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert Research Institute, all in the U.S., has used radiocarbon dating of ...

Radiocarbon dating, also known as carbon-14 dating, is a method to determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years. First developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard ...

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Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

Radiocarbon is present in very small quantities – the sensitivity of the radiocarbon method corresponds to finding the sharpest tip of a needle in a full hay barn. The method is utilized for dating ...

THE turn-over of soil organic matter is a much-discussed problem in pedology. Although much has been written about the rate of breakdown of soil organic matter in mull and mor (for references see ref.

The objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive proficiency on Accelerator Mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating technique and its applications in the field of Heritage and Forensic ...

In 1940 Martin Kamen discovered radioactive carbon-14 (an isotope of carbon) and found that it had a half-life of about 5,700 years. Scientists had also found that some of the nitrogen in the ...