Archaeologists have long sought to bridge the gap between the narratives of ancient texts and the tangible evidence hidden ...

Now, advancements in technology have enabled researchers to analyze the remains found.“This is the first time that a person ...

In order to determine how “old” this dissolved organic carbon is, its natural radiocarbon activity has been measured for two deep-water samples taken off southern California.

Thirty charcoal and shell samples were radiocarbon (14C) dated to determine occupation history. A Bayesian approach was used to build a chronological modeling from charcoal samples. Charcoal and shell ...

SEVERAL articles 1–3 have described efforts to reconcile radiocarbon ages with “true ages”. The principle behind these procedures lies in the determination of a radiocarbon age and its ...

Radiocarbon-based analyses can now accomplish sufficient resolution for meaningful independent estimates of Inka chronology, however, and it is incumbent upon archaeologists to develop such appraisals ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt ...

A skeleton buried in a fetal position is actually made of bones from at least five people who lived across a span of 2,500 years.

So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on ...

New research by Flinders University researchers, conducted in partnership with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of ...