61. Discrepancies In The Radiocarbon Dating Area Of The Turin Shroud Overview of research and studies of and about the Turin Shroud, indicating that the linen cloth originated in the Middle Ages. Authors M. Sue Benford and Joseph G. Marino. http://www.holyshroudguild.org/media/DISCREPANCIES$20IN$20THE$20RADIOCARBON$20DA

62. Archaeologies Of The Greek Past: Radiocarbon Dating - *** THIS FORUM IS ARCHIVED Radiocarbon dating. Organic matter contains a certain amount of carbon14, a radioactive isotope of carbon (under normal conditions carbon has an atomic weight of 12). http://proteus.brown.edu/greekpast/4781

63. NSRL - INSTAAR Laboratory For AMS Radiocarbon Preparation And Research NSRL pursues geochronological and geochemical applications and related method development in radiocarbon research. Offers a lab tour, publications and research descriptions. http://www.colorado.edu/INSTAAR/RadiocarbonDatingLab/

NSRL INSTAAR Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research The INSTAAR NSRL laboratory pursues a wide variety of geochronological and geochemical applications and related method development in radiocarbon research in collaboration with AMS 14C measurement facilities. C for the past 50 cal. ka B.P. (Hughen et al., Science, Volume 303, Number 5655, 9 January 2004) News - This is a temporary web page. A full website will be built later in 2008. Work with Us? Investigators interested in pursuing collaborative research with NSRL should contact Scott Lehman, Laboratory Director. Our Sample Archive NSRL maintains a complete archive of material remaining following processing of samples submitted to the laboratory and an extensive data base recording experimental conditions during all stages of sample processing. We are pleased to answer any questions regarding availability of remaining material or sample processing. Please direct such inquiries to Chad Wolak. Contact Us Scott Lehman NSRL Director, Scott.Lehman@Colorado.edu

64. The Testimony Of Radiocarbon Dating The Testimony of Radiocarbon Dating. In 1952 Willard F. Libby, then of the University of Chicago, published his Radiocarbon Dating. It was about half a century after the http://www.varchive.org/ce/tc14.htm

The Testimony of Radiocarbon Dating In 1952 Willard F. Libby, then of the University of Chicago, published his Radiocarbon Dating. Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval However, the main interest for me in radiocarbon tests was in checking on historical dates of the ancient East, of the period covered in Ages in Chaos. This method was as if created to sit in judgment in the litigation between the accepted and revised time tables. In Ages in Chaos we have seen that, with the fall of the Middle Kingdom and the Exodus synchronized, events in the histories of the peoples of the ancient world coincide all along the centuries. For a space of over one thousand years records of Egyptian history have been compared with the records of the Hebrews, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and finally with those of the Greeks, with a resulting correspondence which denotes synchronism. In Volume I of Ages in Chaos it was shown in great detail why Akhnaton of the Eighteenth Dynasty must be placed in the latter part of the ninth century. If Akhnaton flourished in -840 and not in -1380, the ceramics from Mycenae found in the palace of Akhnaton are younger by five or six hundred years than they are presumed to be, and the Late Mycenaean period would accordingly move forward by about half a thousand years on the scale of time. I wished to have radiocarbon tests that would clarify the issue. I did not need the test in order to strengthen my view on the age of the Eighteenth and the following dynasties, for I considered the evidence that I had presented in

65. New Radiocarbon Ages Of Colonization Sites In East Polynesia Asian Perspectives 41(2). The archaeological chronology of initial human colonization in East Polynesia has relied substantially upon radiocarbon dating results from a small number of sites in the central region, notably Motu Paeao cemetery and Vaito otia-Fa ahia in the Society Islands, and Hane and Ha atuatua in the Marquesas Islands. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v041/41.2anderson.pdf

66. Radiocarbon Dating At RLAHA Oxford - School Of Archaeology - University Of Oxfor ORAU was one of the first radiocarbon AMS laboratories to be founded in the world. Since then it has been actively involved in radiocarbon research of almost all kinds. http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/C.html

Site Map Nexus Weblearn Login ... Dating Radiocarbon dating at RLAHA Oxford Skip navigation Prospective Students Undergraduate Studies Graduate Studies ... Contact Details Personnel Prof C B Ramsey Dr F Brock Dr M W Dee Dr P Ditchfield Dr T Higham Dr L Reynard Mrs D Baker A Bowles J Davies B A Emery M Humm P Leach Research students Rachel Wood Project Areas Archaeological Environmental Science Biological Sciences Art History ... Publications Radiocarbon Dating ORAU was one of the first radiocarbon AMS laboratories to be founded in the world. Since then it has been actively involved in radiocarbon research of almost all kinds. The range of the research is best seen in our publications list but the key areas of methodological research are: the pre-treatment of organic materials - particularly bone the use of stable-isotopes to understand food-chains and subsistence the interpretation of radiocarbon dates in their archaeological and environmental contexts the measurement of very small samples direct measurement on carbon dioxide - the use of AMS gas ion sources was pioneered at this laboratory high precision AMS - using our new HVEE AMS system calibration - particularly with the program OxCal the use of wiggle-match dating - a method to achieve calendar-date precision at the decadal level GC-AMS - a method of the biological and environmental sciences, also pioneered at this laboratory

67. Radiocarbon WebInfo - Dating Radiocarbon Dating. What can be dated? How radiocarbon gets there; The dating principle; Complications; Radiocarbon dating is one of the most widely used scientific dating methods in http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/embed.php?File=dating.html

68. Dating Exhibit While the impact of radiocarbon dating has been most profound in archaeological research and particularly in prehistoric studies, extremely significant contributions have also http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/dating/radio_carbon.html

Index Radio-carbon dating is a method of obtaining age estimates on organic materials. It has been used to date samples as old as 50,000 years. The method was developed immediately following World War II by Willard F. Libby and coworkers, and has provided age determinations in archaeology, geology, geophysics and other branches of science. Radiocarbon determinations can be obtained on wood; charcoal; marine and fresh-water shell; bone and antler; peat and organic-bearing sediments, carbonate deposits such as tufa, caliche, and marl; and dissolved carbon dioxide and carbonates in ocean, lake and ground-water sources. Each sample type has specific problems associated with its use for dating purposes, including contamination and special environmental effects. While the impact of radiocarbon dating has been most profound in archaeological research and particularly in prehistoric studies, extremely significant contributions have also been made in hydrology and oceanography. In addition, in the 1950s the testing of thermonuclear weapons injected large amounts of artificial radiocarbon ("Radiocarbon Bomb") into the atmosphere, permitting it to be used as a geochemical tracer. To discover how long an organism has been dead (to determine how much C14 is left in the organism and therefore how old it is), we count the number of beta radiations given off per minute per gram of material. Modern C14 emits about 15 beta radiations per minute per gram of material, but C14 that is 5730 years old will only emit half that amount, (the half-life of C14) per minute. So if a sample taken from an organism emits 7.5 radiations per minute in a gram of material, then the organism must be 5730 years old. The accuracy of radiocoarbon dating was tested on objects with dates that were already known through historical records such as parts of the dead sea scrolls and some wood from an Egyptian tomb. Based on the results of the Carbon 14 test the analysis showed that C14 agreed very closely with the historical information.

69. Radiocarbon Introduction -- Page 1 Of 12 Radiocarbon Dating Page 1 of 12; The radiocarbon dating method was developed in the 1940's by Willard F. Libby and a team of scientists at the University of Chicago. http://nemo.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualDating/files/RC0/RC_0.html

Radiocarbon Dating Page 1 of 12 The radiocarbon dating method was developed in the 1940's by Willard F. Libby and a team of scientists at the University of Chicago. It subsequently evolved into the most powerful method of dating late Pleistocene and Holocene artifacts and geologic events up to about 50,000 years in age. The radiocarbon method is applied in many different scientific fields, including archeology, geology, oceanography, hydrology, atmospheric science, and paleoclimatology. For his leadership, Libby received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. Study the picture and answer these questions The atomic mass number (the sum of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom) for N-14 and C-14 is the same. How many protons does N-14 have and how many does C-14 have? 14 of each C-14 forms from the interaction of Cosmic rays with N-14 by and C-14 reverts back to N-14 by beta decay and neutron capture electron loss and electron capture neutron capture and beta decay proton capture both ways no way to know

70. Radiocarbon Dating As An Aging Method Is Accurate Up To A Point. Radiocarbon dating is reliable up to 6,000 years, shaky at best up to 40,000 years, and completely useless beyond 70,000 years. http://www.thinking-catholic-strategic-center.com/radiocarbon-dating.html

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71. Radiocarbon Dating | TheTrumpet.com By The Philadelphia Church Of God theTrumpet.com Understand Your World W hat about carbon dating? Doesn’t that give accurate dates of “prehistoric” civilizations? http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7416.0.127.0

72. Radiocarbon Dating - World History For Kids - By KidsPast.com Radiocarbon Dating . One method that scientists use to date ancient fossils and artifacts is called radiocarbon dating. All living things on Earth are made up of a high http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0004-radiocarbon-dating.php

73. Radiocarbon Dating Is carbon14 dating (or radiocarbon dating) always reliable and beyond question? Are all radioactive dating methods unreliable? Have carbon-14 (C 14) dates millions of years http://www.biblequery.org/History/Archaeology/RadiocarbonDatingAndTheBible.htm

Radiocarbon Dating and the Bible Is carbon-14 dating (or radiocarbon dating) always reliable and beyond question? Are all radioactive dating methods unreliable? Have carbon-14 (C ) dates millions of years old been proven wrong? Is carbon-14 dating useless before 2,000 B.C.? Or are the above statements all false, and the truth is something else? Since there are many misconceptions about carbon-14 dating, this paper will explain the principle, the method, some early problems with it, and its current trustworthiness. While many probably have not thought about it before, carbon-14 dating relates to Christianity and Judaism in interesting ways. This method addresses questions on the Shroud of Turin, the archaeological reliability of the Bible, reliable preservation of the Bible, and the Young Earth Theory. The Principle All plants take in carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. All animals take in carbon by eating the plants. Now most carbon has a molecular weight of 12. However, solar radiation creates a small percentage of carbon with two extra neutrons and a molecular weight of 14. A carbon-14 atom is radioactive; it eventually loses an electron and a neutrino and changes to nitrogen-14. Its half-life is 5,730 30 years, so it never has nor can be used to date carbon samples millions of years old.

74. Radiocarbon Dating Of The Shroud Of Turin 1 Department of Geosciences, 2 - Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 3 - Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art http://www.shroud.com/nature.htm

Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin by P. E. Damon, D. J. Donahue, B. H. Gore, A. L. Hatheway, A. J. T. Jull, T. W. Linick, P. J. Sercel, L. J. Toolin, C.R. Bronk, E. T. Hall, R. E. M. Hedges, R. Housley, I. A. Law, C. Perry, G. Bonani, S. Trumbore, W. Woelfli, J. C. Ambers, S. G. E. Bowman, M. N. Leese Reprinted from Nature , Vol. 337, No. 6208, pp. 611-615, 16th February, 1989 Reprinted by permission. - Department of Geosciences, - Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA - Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QJ, UK - Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA - Research Laboratory, British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, UK Very small samples from the Shroud of Turin have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry in laboratories at Arizona, Oxford and Zurich. As Controls, three samples whose ages had been determined independently were also dated. The results provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is mediaeval. The Shroud of Turin , which many people believe was used to wrap Christ's body, bears detailed front and back images of a man who appears to have suffered whipping and crucifixion. It was first displayed at Lirey in France in the 1350s and subsequently passed into the hands of the Dukes of Savoy. After many journeys the shroud was finally brought to Turin in 1578 where, in 1694, it was placed in the royal chapel of Turin Cathedral in a specially designed shrine.

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