After these researchers unexpectedly found carbon-based drawings in the Font-de-Gaume cave, they returned to pinpoint when the figures were drawn ...

Charred hazelnut shells discovered at an archaeological site in Cornwall have pushed back the date for the arrival of the Neolithic period in the region by at least a century. New radiocarbon dating ...

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 ...

A research team led by a CNRS researcher has for the first time accurately determined the age of the cave paintings at ...

In 1899, something strange happened in the small village of Bagicz, Poland: a coffin fell off a cliff near the Baltic Sea. Inside, archaeologists found a well-preserved skeleton of a woman from the ...

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Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce. Winters could bite for months. Yet people still returned to certain places ...

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 ...

It's still unknown who wrote it and what it means, but a UA-led team has solved one mystery of the "Voynich manuscript" - its age. Through radiocarbon dating, a team led by University of Arizona ...

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 ...