radiocarbon dating
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radiocarbon-date
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Researchers used radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis -- a kind of statistical analysis -- to put the artifacts' age at 15,280 to 16,560 years. — Fox News, "First American settlers may have been in Idaho 16,500 years ago, study says," 29 Aug. 2019 But in 2017, the team ran samples and came back with radiocarbon dates from the ninth century b.c., moving the tower’s provenance by more than a thousand years. — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, "Common Ground," 19 Aug. 2019 The upcoming study will use radiocarbon dating on some 400 bones from different species excavated from different pits. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Fossilized teeth of Ice Age predators yield clues to why certain species survived," 6 Aug. 2019 Using radiocarbon dating, the team first established that the jaw was about 50 years too old to belong to the warrior-king. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Fear of Foreign Food May Have Led to the Death of This Crusader King," 26 June 2019 Ledger and his colleagues did statistical analysis of all the recorded radiocarbon dates from Norse artifacts at the site to calculate the most likely start and end dates for the Norse occupation. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "New archaeological layer discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows," 17 July 2019 Absolute dating Perhaps the most famous absolute dating technique, radiocarbon dating was developed during the 1940s and relies on chemistry to determine the ages of objects. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, "How archaeologists determine the date of ancient sites and artifacts," 28 June 2019 Corded Ware burials are so recognizable, archaeologists rarely need to bother with radiocarbon dating. — Andrew Curry, National Geographic, "The first Europeans weren’t who you might think," 12 July 2019 By excavating 1,699 stones, pebbles and flakes, and working out the age of 122 hammerstones from the radiocarbon dates of charcoal buried alongside them, the team split the site’s history into four phases. — The Economist, "Capuchin monkeys have been using stone tools for around 3,000 years," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'radiocarbon dating.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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