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

Chase, who previously used lidar at Caracol, where as many as 100,000 people lived, compares this technology to carbon-14 dating.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2018

However, as with carbon-14 dating, the technique can be verified by a consistent body of knowledge.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

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