carbon dating
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They used carbon dating techniques to estimate the age of the 10cm cube-shaped bone.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
For instance, they may be able to better understand math concepts through studying NFL stats, Taylor Swift album sales, or Jurassic-era carbon dating.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
By modeling this age-roughness relationship, with information from landslides dated by other means such as carbon dating, researchers can estimate when a particular landslide took place.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
After the chart was purchased, Clausen sent it to a lab in New York that took a scientific approach to dating, analyzing pigments and performing carbon dating on a small piece of the parchment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
More precise dates did not come in until the 1950s, when Willard F. Libby, a chemist at the University of Chicago, invented carbon dating.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
