Radiocarbon records are critical to understanding the history of Earth's climate, magnetic field, and the sun's activity, say researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2021
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The period of time when anatomically modern humans first appeared in a particular region is always hotly debated amongst scientists. In western Europe, the contested region is the Iberian Peninsula, considered the last region ...
Archaeology
Nov 3, 2021
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Several years ago, while analyzing ice core samples from Antarctica's James Ross Island, scientists Joe McConnell, Ph.D., and Nathan Chellman, Ph.D., from DRI, and Robert Mulvaney, Ph.D., from the British Antarctic Survey ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2021
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Dendrochronologists, Paolo Cherubini with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Science outlining the use of dendrochronology to determine the ...
Archeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by radiocarbon calibration curves and measurement uncertainty. ...
Archaeology
Sep 15, 2021
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The Kimberley region is host to Australia's oldest known rock paintings. But people were carving engravings into some of these rocks before they were creating paintings.
Archaeology
Aug 16, 2021
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The development of agriculture was a landmark feat for modern humans. It marked the beginning of a sedentary lifestyle and development of 'civilizations'. However, the environmental factors that drove this revolutionary change ...
Archaeology
Jul 29, 2021
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New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn't really happen.
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2021
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The eruption of the Laacher See volcano in the Eifel, a low mountain range in western Germany, is one of Central Europe's largest eruptions over the past 100,000 years. The eruption ejected around 20 cubic kilometers of tephra ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2021
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A series of mysterious lines carved on the seafloor off North Carolina's Outer Banks have been identified as "highly unexpected" proof that icebergs once filled the horizon along the East Coast.
Environment
Jun 29, 2021
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