Our view of the ancient past is set to become a bit clearer after an international team of scientists completed a major recalibration of radiocarbon dating. The seven-year global effort used almost 15 ...

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A team of archaeologists has used an advanced dating technique to establish the first precise construction timeline for ...

Scientists have revealed a new timeline for historic coral structures in French Polynesia thanks to the modern uranium-thorium dating method ...

Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history. The standard dating method since the 1950s has been radiocarbon dating. The method, which is based on the ...

Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewelry might make headlines, but for scientists, this kind of discovery is only meaningful if we can tell how old ...

Researchers reconstructed the geomagnetic fields recorded in 21 archaeological destruction layers throughout Israel and used the data to develop a reliable new scientific tool for archaeological ...

Researchers in the UK have created a new way of dating archaeological artefacts that involves heating ancient pots to unlock their internal clocks. The relatively simple technique could become as ...

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Potassium-Argon dating is similar to Carbon 14 dating because it uses radioactive decay, measuring the rate of change from an unstable isotope, to a stable one. This method is a little different from ...