Following a recent study, Dr. Przemysław Bobrowski and his colleagues published new radiocarbon dates on Holocene (11,700 ...

The work by the team involved obtaining food scraps, charcoal bits, textiles, bones, and other artifacts left behind by Indigenous people over 2,000 years and then carbon dating them. The work ...

Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the ...

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 ...

Radiocarbon dating can be used on a lot of things that archaeologists recover from excavations. The best is charcoal because it is made mainly of carbon. Other things have to be reduced to their ...

"The 'sister' monument to Flagstones is Stonehenge, whose first phase is almost identical, but it dates to around 2900 BC. Could Stonehenge have been a copy of Flagstones? Or do these findings suggest ...

So what's the story behind radiocarbon dating? It's not a love story, to be sure. Rather, it's a way to determine the age of organic remains such as bone, teeth, and seeds by finding out how much ...

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 ...

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

At the Laboratory of Chronology, we conduct hundreds of radiocarbon analyses each year for archaeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, and industry. Timelines from carbon When an organism ...