carbon dating

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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

He said it would take at least eight weeks for radio carbon dating analysis to determine exactly how long ago the baby was concealed.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 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