Samples used for radiocarbon dating must be handled carefully to avoid contamination. Not all material can be dated by this method; only samples containing... 12 KB (1,637 words) - 13:37, 12 February 2024 |
 | Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material... 104 KB (13,848 words) - 01:40, 25 April 2024 |
 | which is radiocarbon dating, in an attempt to determine the relic's authenticity. In 1988, scientists at three separate laboratories dated samples from the... 52 KB (6,958 words) - 09:43, 3 March 2024 |
definitive date for the Polynesian discovery of Hawaii. Through the use of more advanced radiocarbon methods, taxonomic identification of samples, and stratigraphic... 12 KB (1,722 words) - 19:32, 29 July 2023 |
Radiocarbon dating measurements produce ages in "radiocarbon years", which must be converted to calendar ages by a process called calibration. Calibration... 18 KB (2,262 words) - 09:30, 21 March 2024 |
 | Accelerator mass spectrometry (redirect from AMS radiocarbon dating) extensive chronologies. MS technology has expanded the scope of radiocarbon dating. Samples ranging from 50,000 years old to 100 years old can be successfully... 13 KB (1,484 words) - 16:25, 20 April 2024 |
to use samples from short-lived plants for radiocarbon dating. The development of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating, which allows a date to be... 14 KB (1,774 words) - 03:07, 8 November 2023 |
Radiocarbon is a scientific journal devoted to the topic of radiocarbon dating. It was founded in 1959 as a supplement to the American Journal of Science... 3 KB (139 words) - 17:04, 14 October 2023 |
Carbon dating the Dead Sea Scrolls refers to a series of radiocarbon dating tests performed on the Dead Sea Scrolls, first by the AMS (Accelerator Mass... 9 KB (1,045 words) - 08:25, 3 August 2023 |
and In-Situ Production". Radiocarbon. 34 (2): 219–225. doi:10.1017/S0033822200013655. Ramsey, C.B. (2008). "Radiocarbon dating: revolutions in understanding"... 28 KB (3,949 words) - 07:17, 15 January 2024 |
Before Present (section Radiocarbon dating) practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s. Because the "present" time changes, standard practice is to use 1 January 1950 as the commencement date (epoch)... 16 KB (1,533 words) - 16:13, 29 March 2024 |
scale. Among the best-known techniques are radiocarbon dating, potassium–argon dating and uranium–lead dating. By allowing the establishment of geological... 44 KB (5,517 words) - 02:21, 14 March 2024 |
 | Dendrochronology (redirect from Cross-dating) precise age of samples, especially those that are too recent for radiocarbon dating, which always produces a range rather than an exact date. However, for... 48 KB (5,727 words) - 16:56, 16 February 2024 |
 | Carbon-14 (redirect from Radiocarbon) of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples. Carbon-14... 38 KB (4,190 words) - 18:49, 26 April 2024 |
a resulting "radiocarbon age". Radiocarbon dating is also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating. Calculations of radiocarbon dates are typically... 21 KB (3,335 words) - 03:51, 27 April 2024 |
Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located... 17 KB (2,113 words) - 00:29, 8 November 2023 |
Luminescence dating refers to a group of chronological dating methods of determining how long ago mineral grains were last exposed to sunlight or sufficient... 18 KB (2,545 words) - 09:42, 1 February 2024 |
 | years since the zeroing event. Thermoluminescence dating is used for material where radiocarbon dating is not available, like sediments. Its use is now... 12 KB (1,396 words) - 21:15, 19 February 2024 |
 | Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England (section Radiocarbon dating and other scientific analyses) to make radiocarbon dating samples appear older than they are. A Bayesian analysis suggested there was a 68.2% probability that the true date of the bones... 100 KB (10,458 words) - 20:15, 28 April 2024 |
Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldest and most refined of the radiometric dating schemes. It can be used to date rocks that... 9 KB (1,273 words) - 17:38, 25 April 2024 |
Archaeology of Lejja (section Radiocarbon dating) used radiocarbon dating to date carbon samples from the Onualor cave located adjacent to Lejja. The results of the study showed that the samples ranged... 4 KB (607 words) - 22:09, 29 February 2024 |
techniques. These include direct radiocarbon dating of the stones composing the Bimini Road and uranium-thorium dating of the marine limestone on which... 34 KB (4,525 words) - 00:59, 18 March 2024 |
Gruta del Indio (section Radiocarbon dating) Long and Paul S. Martin conducted significant radiocarbon dating research on charcoal, dung, and bone samples within the Atuel IV and Atuel III layers. C14... 8 KB (863 words) - 00:26, 24 April 2024 |
Lead–lead dating is a method for dating geological samples, normally based on 'whole-rock' samples of material such as granite. For most dating requirements... 12 KB (1,718 words) - 10:16, 4 November 2023 |
 | not far from the Komadugu Gana River, in Yobe State, Nigeria. Radiocarbon dating of a sample of charcoal found near the site dates the canoe at 8,500 to... 5 KB (648 words) - 13:38, 15 April 2024 |
 | Shroud of Turin (section Radiocarbon dating) the radiocarbon dating data have been repeatedly statistically analysed, in attempts to draw some conclusions about the reliability of the C14 dating from... 93 KB (10,826 words) - 23:57, 25 April 2024 |
 | Bomb pulse (redirect from Bomb pulse dating) cells were created and how often they've turned over since then. Radiocarbon dating has been used since 1946 to determine the age of organic material... 17 KB (2,065 words) - 21:19, 3 January 2024 |
Mass spectrometry also uses smaller samples. Radiocarbon dating Davis, Owen (Spring 2005). "Uranium-Thorium Dating". Biogeography ECOLOGY 438/538. Department... 10 KB (1,149 words) - 02:19, 28 November 2023 |
| three radiocarbon dating tests performed in 1988 which resulted in the shroud being dated to 1260–1390 AD, some researchers have challenged the dating based... 88 KB (10,877 words) - 01:20, 26 March 2024 |
Electron spin resonance dating, or ESR dating, is a technique used to date materials which radiocarbon dating cannot, including minerals (e.g. carbonates... 13 KB (1,529 words) - 23:14, 27 April 2024 |