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Radiocarbon dating has since transformed archaeology.
Carbon breakthroughs win two Nobel prizes for science Robin McKie 2010
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Radiocarbon dating was performed and a calibrated date of 2,700 years BP was returned.
Just because you're dead, that doesn't mean you can't still mellow out 2009
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Radiocarbon dating was performed and a calibrated date of 2,700 years BP was returned.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Radiocarbon dating has revealed that bones or artefacts placed as offerings beside the timber posts were sometimes already of some age.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Radiocarbon dates need to be checked before other causes of the damage can be ruled out completely.
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Radiocarbon dating of the subfossil wood (53 dates) was cross dated with ring series from the samples, allowing the construction of a continuous tree-ring chronology 7,314 years in length.
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Radiocarbon is the isotope of carbon that has six protons and eight neutrons (thus, C-14).
Bill Chameides: Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun 2009
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Radiocarbon dates from the post holes have revealed that they are very, very old: as old as the eighth millennium BC, when the last Ice Age was still receding from Scotland, and Salisbury Plain was still covered in pine forest.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Radiocarbon is produced by cosmic rays; fast neutrons entering the upper atmosphere slam into nitrogen atoms and convert the nitrogen (N-14) to C-14.
Bill Chameides: Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun 2009
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Radiocarbon (C14) dating conducted by the University of California Radiation Laboratory on the heavy 9-inch thick timber sides and lid of the chest in which it was discovered arrived at readings that indicated a period around 26,450 BCE.
Startling CIA findings on Longevity & Hindu Spiriualism: Sure to Make you feel Thrilled Paulina 2009
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