Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history. The standard dating method since the 1950s has been radiocarbon dating. The method, which is based on the ...

Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewelry might make headlines, but for scientists, this kind of discovery is only meaningful if we can tell how old ...

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In the next instalment of the Archaeology 101 set of videos, I tell you the exciting story of Sir William Flinders Petrie and his invention of Seriation!! Seriation is complicated and involves a lot ...

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Researchers in the UK have created a new way of dating archaeological artefacts that involves heating ancient pots to unlock their internal clocks. The relatively simple technique could become as ...

Researchers reconstructed the geomagnetic fields recorded in 21 archaeological destruction layers throughout Israel and used the data to develop a reliable new scientific tool for archaeological ...

Potassium-Argon dating is similar to Carbon 14 dating because it uses radioactive decay, measuring the rate of change from an unstable isotope, to a stable one. This method is a little different from ...

Knowing the occupation timescales for ancient sites offers insights into population dynamics. A dating approach now establishes the time frame during which prehistoric hearths were in use at a high ...

Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewellery might make headlines, but for scientists, this kind of discovery is only meaningful if we can tell how ...