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 ...

“It’s like a time machine. So we can shake hands with these people from 2,000 years ago, and we can put them in time much better now,” said Professor Mladen Popović, University of Groningen, in ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past of the Magdalenian period in the Cantabrian region of Spain can be ...

In this collection of lab-based activities, students will learn about the concepts of radiation and half-life in order to gain an understanding of the use of radiocarbon dating as a method of absolute ...

Radiocarbon dating can be a great way to help verify the age of things, and now, a new precise radiocarbon dating of archaeological sites in Jerusalem may be just what scientists needed to prove some ...

Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce. Winters could bite for months. Yet people still returned to certain places ...

On this day in 1940, two scientists discovered an elusive form of carbon — and inadvertently opened a window into lost civilizations. Since the mid-1930s, scientists had predicted the existence of a ...

The eastern Mediterranean region and Egypt, showing the location of the Thera (Santorini) volcano and other places mentioned in the text. Their findings were published in PLOS One last month. Prof.