How Radiocarbon Dating Worksβand What It Can Actually Tell Us
Radiocarbon dating is one of archaeologyβs most useful tools, but it is often described as if a laboratory can place an exact year on any ancient object. The method is narrower and more interesting than that. It measures the remaining carbon-14 in material that was once alive, then uses calibration and archaeological context to estimate [β¦]
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