Tag: radiocarbon dating

Isotope analysis of more than 100 ancient individuals shows that corn-based polyculture, not hunting-gathering or monoculture, sustained large pre-colonial villages ...

Single-grain luminescence dating of drill cores from Austria's lower Salzach Valley shows the enigmatic Salzburger Seeton lake sediments were deposited ...

Cores from 10,000-year-old peatlands in Switzerland's Fimba Valley record Holocene cold events, including the 8.2 ka climate anomaly, alongside millennia ...

New beryllium-10 measurements from glacial boulders in north-west Scotland show that the Rannoch Moor production rate gives the most accurate ...

A 10,000-year-old larch found with roots intact in front of the retreating Morteratschgletscher shows that forests once grew at 2150 ...

High-resolution sonar, sediment cores and underwater video have revealed a drowned lake and river landscape in Mecklenburg Bay, reconstructing 13,000 ...

A new review of numerical dating methods for Quaternary volcanism explains how argon, radiocarbon, uranium-series, cosmogenic and luminescence clocks are ...

A reconstruction of 1,361 radiocarbon dates from 303 Amazonian sites shows that fire in the rainforest has been almost exclusively ...

A 10,000-year-old bone projectile point dredged from a Lithuanian river still preserves birch bark tar adhesive, making it the oldest ...

University of Queensland researchers have shown that growth bands in land snail shells record extreme rainfall from past cyclones, offering ...