Dedicated at the University of Chicago on October 10, 2016. In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly ...

A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered ...

Willard F. Libby, the American chemist well-known as the discoverer of the carbon 14 (radiocarbon) dating technique for which he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960. Thirteen hominid teeth that ...

Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the ...

Following a recent study, Dr. Przemysław Bobrowski and his colleagues published new radiocarbon dates on Holocene (11,700 years ago to the present) sites located in the Tsakhiurtyn Hundi (Flint Valley ...

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Map showing the locations of the Early Iron Age axes analyzed in the study. Found nearly 3,000 miles (4,800 km) apart in ...

A new paper points out the need for an important new refinement to radiocarbon dating. The research has relevance for understanding key dates in Mediterranean history and prehistory, including the ...

New radiocarbon dating of the ‘Llullaillaco Maiden’ appears to rule out a response to natural disasters or Inca campaigns of conquest. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers called her the “Llullaillaco ...