carbon-14 dating
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carbon 14 datingSee radioactive dating.
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Origin of carbon-14 dating
First recorded in 1955–60
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The researchers studied the raw materials and technology and carried out carbon-14 dating, which revealed that the set dates to the early and middle Holocene period, between 9,500 and 6,200 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
According to Maussan, the National Autonomous University of Mexico performed carbon-14 dating on the purported bodies and determined them to be between 700 years and 1,800 years old.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
Not only are megafauna bones relatively rare there, but carbon-14 dating could only show that the animals had been gone at least 40,000 years.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
In general, radioactive dating only works for about 10 half-lives; therefore, the limit for carbon-14 dating is about 57,000 years.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Preliminary carbon-14 dating indicates that it may have required about 1,100 years for these specimens to work their way up through the ice.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2012
When Libby first proposed carbon 14 dating in 1950, he assumed that the total world supply of the isotope was about the same as it had been in the past.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ancient Indian fish weirs found under Boston's Boylston Street have been excavated and their age determined by carbon 14 dating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Working with hundreds of ancient wood samples, Geochemist Hans Suess of the University of California at San Diego recalibrated archaeological ages derived by carbon 14 dating in all parts of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fact is, though, that carbon 14 dating, for example, has been verified against historical records going back to ancient Egypt and the known ages of 2,000-year-old trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
During most of its existence, from 6500 to 5700 B. C.- dates determined by carbon 14 dating -the city must have looked like an Indian pueblo of the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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