{"id":103932,"date":"2020-03-18T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/fine-tuning-radiocarbon-dating-could-rewrite-ancient-events"},"modified":"2020-03-18T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:05:45","slug":"fine-tuning-radiocarbon-dating-could-rewrite-ancient-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/fine-tuning-radiocarbon-dating-could-rewrite-ancient-events","title":{"rendered":"Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could \u2018rewrite\u2019 ancient events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fine-tuning-radiocarbon-dating-could-rewrite-ancient-events2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s organic and old\u2014up to 50,000 years\u2014you date it by radiocarbon,\u201d said Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper led by Cornell University points out the need for an important new refinement to the technique. The outcomes of his study, published March 18 in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, have relevance for understanding key dates in Mediterranean history and prehistory, including the tomb of Tutankhamen and a controversial but important volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.,.o. Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines. \u201cIf it\u2019s organic and old\u2014up to 50,000 years\u2014you date it by radiocarbon,\u201d said Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}