carbon dating
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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
"It's likely that many of the early attempts at carbon dating were contaminated by modern DNA rubbing off the fingers of the scientists handling the exhibits," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
Judging by carbon dating and the sequence of ceramics, they believe the site was inhabited in two waves, from about 360 b.c., when terra preta formation began, to as late as 1440 a.d.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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