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 ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past of the Magdalenian period in the Cantabrian region of Spain can be ...

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 ...

The eastern Mediterranean region and Egypt, showing the location of the Thera (Santorini) volcano and other places mentioned in the text. Their findings were published in PLOS One last month. Prof.

A cave wall covered with Paleolithic drawings of animals, including, from left, a bison in black facing left, a deer in red facing right, and a bison in red facing right. Researchers used a suite of ...

Dr. Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her colleagues conducted a multidisciplinary analysis of the only known preserved wooden coffin from the Roman Iron Age, the Princess of Bagicz. The study, published ...

Scientists working across the Pacific Islands have refined the timeline of Polynesian ritual construction by dating coral ...

The Keeladi site in Madurai has revealed yet another chapter in Tamil Nadu’s past. Radiocarbon dating by US laboratory Beta Analytics has confirmed that it dates to 6th century BCE, making it ...