Our view of the ancient past is set to become a bit clearer after an international team of scientists completed a major recalibration of radiocarbon dating. The seven-year global effort used almost 15 ...

Improved date estimates The Kyrenia Ship hull on the seabed during underwater excavation in the late 1960s. (CC BY 4.0/Kyrenia Ship Excavation team) The Kyrenia Ship is an ancient merchant vessel that ...

The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international colleagues, used measurements from almost 15,000 ...

Kyrenia Ship Hull during excavation. Kyrenia Ship hull on the seabed off northern Cyprus during underwater excavation in the later 1960s. Updated radiocarbon calibration techniques provide improved ...

Researchers have produced a new archaeological tool which could answer key questions in human evolution. The new calibration curve, which extends back 50,000 years, is a major landmark in radiocarbon ...

Academics have developed a new internationally agreed radiocarbon calibration curve which will allow key past events to be dated more accurately. Research led by Professors Paul Blackwell and Caitlin ...

The development of a high precision record of atmospheric radiocarbon shifts beyond 14,000 calendar years BP - obtained through combined studies (e.g., dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating and ...

A lone diver first laid eyes on the ancient Kyrenia shipwreck off the north coast of Cyprus nearly 60 years ago. But when archaeologists attempted to determine the exact timeline of the vessel coming ...