radiocarbon
Noun
Meaning
a radioactive isotope of carbon
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A calibration curve is used by taking the radiocarbon date reported by a laboratory, and reading across from that date on the vertical axis of the graph.
Archaeologists' most precise determinations at present suggest that this radiocarbon age is equal to roughly 13,200 to 12,900 calendar years ago.
Bayesian statistical techniques can be applied when there are several radiocarbon dates to be calibrated.
Creatures living at the ocean surface have the same mainC ratios as the water they live in, and as a result of the reduced mainC / mainC ratio, the radiocarbon age of marine life is typically about 440 years.
Although the peat encasing Lindow Man has been radiocarbon dated to about 300 BC, Lindow Man himself has a different date.
As radiocarbon dates began to prove these ideas wrong in many instances, it became apparent that these innovations must sometimes have arisen locally.