carbon-14 dating
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In addition, carbon-14 dating of twelve remains has indicated three periods of funerary use in the cave: in 3800 BC, in 2500 BC.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
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
