radiocarbon dating

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a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon 14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years

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Before the advent of radiocarbon dating, the fossilized trees had been dated by correlating sequences of annually deposited layers of sediment at Two Creeks with sequences in Scandinavia. Source: Internet

Despite the development over recent decades of the ability through radiocarbon dating and other scientific methods to give actual dates for many sites or artefacts, these long-established schemes seem likely to remain in use. Source: Internet

Dendrochronology is used in turn as a calibration reference for radiocarbon dating curves. Source: Internet

Evidence such as radiocarbon dating and magnetic drift points to many of these being built around 550-600AD. Source: Internet

First, the radiocarbon dating method (invented in 1949) had become sufficiently inexpensive to be applied on a mass scale. Source: Internet

However, this conclusion contradicts radiocarbon dating, according to which other sites preceded Anakena by many years, especially the Tahai, whose radiocarbon dates precede Anakena's by several centuries. Source: Internet

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