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 ...

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Radiocarbon dating, also known as carbon-14 dating, is a method to determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years. First developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scientific date is either absolute (specific to one point in time) or relative (younger or older than something else). Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides absolute dates in two different ...