Ancient Solar Flare Establishes New Dates for Viking Trade
Solar flare throws light on ancient trade between the Islamic Middle East and the Viking Age. An interdisciplinary Danish team of researchers has used new…
Radiocarbon Dating
Move Over Columbus: Europeans Were Already Active in the Americas 1,000 Years Ago
Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries beforehand, although exactly when has remained unclear. Here, an international…
Finally, A Statistical Fix for Archaeology’s Radiocarbon Dating Problem
Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by…
Historical Timeline Is Inaccurate: Advanced Radiocarbon Dating Reveals Machu Picchu Is Older Than Expected
Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a new study led…
Secrets of the Past Unlocked With Accurate New International Carbon Dating Standard
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical…
33,000 Year Old Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave
An ancient domesticated do skull was found in a Razboinichya cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Using an accelerator mass spectrometry and radiocarbon dating,…
