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 ...

One of the more significant challenges archaeologists deal with while investigating any archaeological site is determining how old it is. At sites with historic materials, items such as bottles, jars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the late 1940s at ...

It is called Radiocarbon 3.0: it is the newest method developments in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the ...

“It’s like a time machine. So we can shake hands with these people from 2,000 years ago, and we can put them in time much better now,” said Professor Mladen Popović, University of Groningen, in ...

Legend says that Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, twin brothers who after being abandoned as infants, suckled a she-wolf to survive. The image of the young boys at the wolf’s teat has been ...

Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce.

This work was partially supported by the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Grant EP/N509735/1 to U.E. and by the MRC (MR/R025126/1), the Crafoord Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (2020-03485 ...