• The calculation of radiocarbon dates determines the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon (also known as...
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    that is too young by about 80 years. The calculations given above produce dates in radiocarbon years: i.e. dates that represent the age the sample would...
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  • dates for artefacts, and it became clear that a correction would need to be applied to radiocarbon ages to obtain calendar dates. Uncalibrated dates may...
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  • not always observed, many sources restrict the use of BP dates to those produced with radiocarbon dating; the alternative notation RCYBP stands for the...
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    too many leap years. The consequence was that the basis for the calculation of the date of Easter, as decided in the 4th century, had drifted from reality...
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  • Epoch (redirect from Epoch of 1970-01-01)
    University Science Books. pp. 616–617. Higham, Thomas. "Radiocarbon dating – Age calculation". c14dating.com. Thomas Higham (archaeologist). Archived...
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  • long-term oscillation with a period of about 9,000 years, which causes radiocarbon dates to be older than true dates for the last 2,000 years and too young...
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    Conversely, the radiocarbon dates have been argued to be inaccurate by Malcolm Wiener, Radiocarbon dating of the Theran eruption", Open Journal of Archaeometry...
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    modern, well-stratified sequences of radiocarbon dates from Southern Mesopotamia makes it difficult to assign absolute dates to this floating chronology. Middle...
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    Minoan eruption (category Landforms of the South Aegean)
    previous raw radiocarbon dates be calibrated to encompass a substantial part of 16th century BCE, making it possible for radiocarbon dates to be compatible...
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    Bakhshali manuscript (category Use dmy dates from May 2023)
    2017). "Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit dates the world's oldest recorded origin of the zero symbol". School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Archived...
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    Islamic calendar (redirect from AH dates)
    commemorated as the Hijrah. In the West, dates in this era are usually denoted AH (Latin: Anno Hegirae, lit. 'In the year of the Hijrah'). In Muslim countries...
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  • important to the Christian churches because it is fundamental to the calculation of the date of Easter. To reinstate the association, the reform advanced the...
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  • calculation of time spans difficult. The Anno Domini era has no year "zero", with 1 BC followed immediately by AD 1, complicating the calculation of timespans...
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    Arabic of the Persian mathematician Al-Khwārizmī (On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, c. 825) and Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (On the Use of the Hindu...
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    Story of Japan. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. OCLC 1016340. NengoCalc. Online conversion of Japanese dates into their Western equivalents; calculation is...
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    writing of history and the use of historical methods. Radiocarbon dating estimates the age of formerly living things by measuring the proportion of carbon-14...
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    correct an error in the Julian calendar that was causing erroneous calculation of the date of Easter. The Julian calendar had been based upon a year lasting...
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  • been obtained with radiocarbon dating and blood groups[dubious – discuss] as well as archaeology.[citation needed] The approach of Gray and Atkinson,...
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  • Biblical literalist chronology (category Christian theology of the Bible)
    dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting with creation in Genesis 1:1. Some of the better-known calculations include...
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    Dual dating (redirect from Hyphenated dates)
    Date of Easter#Gregorian reform of the computus – Calculation of its date Old Calendarists – Group of traditionalist Eastern Orthodox bodies List of calendars...
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    from which calculations of all dates should be as "the third day of Nisan in this present year ... which is the year 4938 of the creation of the world"...
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  • Hotu Matuꞌa (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024)
    CE. This date range is based on glottochronological calculations and on three radiocarbon dates from charcoal that appears to have been produced during...
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    groups by Dong Zuobin. The oracle bones have been radiocarbon dated and results are given below. The dates given are uncertainty ranges, not regnal years...
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  • 0 (redirect from History of zero)
    radiocarbon dating to come from three different centuries: from AD 224–383, AD 680–779, and AD 885–993, making it South Asia's oldest recorded use of...
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  • Proleptic Gregorian calendar (category Use dmy dates from May 2021)
    the dates preceding its official introduction in 1582. In nations that adopted the Gregorian calendar after its official and first introduction, dates occurring...
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  • proposed stand up to close examination. In 2010, a series of corroborated radiocarbon dates were published for dynastic Egypt which suggest some minor...
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    timing of the event, and therefore which Minoan period it belongs in. However, the broadness of radiocarbon dating has also resulted in dates for the...
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    great precision for the time: 365.25 days, as shown by the following calculation: 355 ⋅ 13 + 377 ⋅ 7 + 378 ⋅ 4 24 = 8766 24 = 365.25 {\displaystyle {\frac...
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    Anno Mundi (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    Sanctification of the Moon (11.16), he wrote of his choice of Epoch, from which calculations of all dates should be made, as "the third day of Nisan in this...
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