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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most appealing features of Australia is its wildlife. Only a few places in the world can surpass Australia in terms of its flora and fauna. Despite the diversity of the animals found in ...

For the first time, scientists have established a precise construction timeline for colonial-era coral buildings in French Polynesia, using an advanced uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating technique. The ...