carbon-14 dating

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Using carbon-14 dating techniques, researchers confirmed the ages of the tombs, the artifacts, and the writing.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

The archaeologists used a process known as carbon-14 dating to find out how old the bone instruments were.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

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