In the next instalment of the Archaeology 101 set of videos, I eat Jell-O to explain stratigraphy!! Stratigraphy is super important, and the backbone of archaeological interpretation, dating and ...

Bayesian chronological modelling in archaeological radiocarbon dating leverages probabilistic frameworks to refine and contextualise age estimates. This approach couples radiocarbon measurements with ...

Among the highlights is a new book, The Past Decade of Chinese Archaeology (2016-26), compiled by institute researchers. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luminescence dating has become an indispensable tool for reconstructing the chronology of human-modified terrains, from agricultural terraces and earthworks to dune fields and fluvial deposits. At its ...

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Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of early farmers in northern Greece dating back more than 7,000 years to the year. For this ...

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 ...

Archaeological tree-ring dating: origins and principles -- Lord of the rings: A.E. Douglass and the development of archaeological tree dating, 1914-1929 -- Tree-ring dating at the University of ...

A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years. I have worked on many shipwreck ...