For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

The development of a high precision record of atmospheric radiocarbon shifts beyond 14,000 calendar years BP - obtained through combined studies (e.g., dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating and ...

Kyrenia Ship Hull during excavation. Kyrenia Ship hull on the seabed off northern Cyprus during underwater excavation in the later 1960s. Updated radiocarbon calibration techniques provide improved ...

Dedicated at the University of Chicago on October 10, 2016. In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly ...

Radiocarbon dating can be a great way to help verify the age of things, and now, a new precise radiocarbon dating of archaeological sites in Jerusalem may be just what scientists needed to prove some ...