carbon-14 dating

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The researchers studied the raw materials and technology and carried out carbon-14 dating, which revealed that the set dates to the early and middle Holocene period, between 9,500 and 6,200 years ago.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 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

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

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

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