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

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

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