How to Use radiocarbon dating in a Sentence

radiocarbon dating

noun
  • To date the remains this go-round, researchers still used radiocarbon dating.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The technique has been compared to radiocarbon dating but with light.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • And, based on radiocarbon dating, it would have all been transcribed in the fifth or sixth century.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Others, such as the seabird oil, may be older than radiocarbon dating can divulge.
    — Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
  • The team performed new radiocarbon dating using conifer pollen taken from the same layers as the grass seeds.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • By radiocarbon dating ancient grass seeds that were found above and below the layers of earth where the footprints were found.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • This isn’t the first time scientists have turned to radiocarbon dating in an attempt to thwart forgers.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
  • Using radiocarbon dating, Nielsen's team peered into sharks' eyes to find their age.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2016
  • The next step for the team will be to do more radiocarbon dating and go back out on the field, before analyzing their data.
    — CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Researchers plan to use radiocarbon dating to determine the grave’s age.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Based on radiocarbon dating, they’re believed to be more than 1,000 years old.
    — al, 4 May 2022
  • Confirmation of the age of these remains came through radiocarbon dating of a few samples.
    — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • One of the first orders of business will be radiocarbon dating the remains for a precise estimate of the bears' ages.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Since then, radiocarbon dating matched the demise of Well Man to the period described in the saga.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The tusk is in fine shape and radiocarbon dated to the Last Glacial Maximum.
    — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The oldest of these canals, based on radiocarbon dating of remnants of plants, is thought to have been built about 3,500 years ago.
    — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • According to radiocarbon dating, all three had lived about 4,000 years ago.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • Using radiocarbon dating, the team first established that the jaw was about 50 years too old to belong to the warrior-king.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
  • Only a fraction of the items were examined in-depth or analyzed with radiocarbon dating.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And there was conveniently only one event that, that actually fit with the timing of the radiocarbon dates.
    — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Initial radiocarbon dating revealed that the food storage pit was used about 1,000 years ago.
    — Peter Burke, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Based on radiocarbon dating, Aguada Fenix is around the same age as several large Olmec sites.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 June 2020
  • Questions persisted over the dating of the items until the first radiocarbon dating tests in the 1970s.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Nielsen and researchers used radiocarbon dating of eye lens nuclei to estimate the age of the sharks and published their findings in the journal Science.
    — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • But radiocarbon dating, which showed Stonehenge to predate the Mycenaeans, had consigned that theory to the scrap heap.
    — Simon Akam, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Before now, one of the few ways to date the Dead Sea Scrolls was through palaeography (the study of handwriting) and radiocarbon dating.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2025
  • The find ended up at the Bell Museum, whose staff sent it to California for radiocarbon dating.
    — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • Based on radiocarbon dating and an analysis of when this spot became submerged, the researchers think the artifacts are at least 7,000 years old.
    — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
  • Ben-Yosef and his colleagues studied 154 slag samples from those old smelting centers and made a timeline through radiocarbon dating based on the charcoal mixed in.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Scholars have long relied on radiocarbon dating and palaeography (the study of ancient handwriting) to date the Dead Sea Scrolls.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025

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