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Discovery of copper band shows Native Americans engaged in trade more extensively than thought

Radiometric dating using an Accelerated Mass Spectrometer indicate that the remains and band are both more than 3,500 years old. This is significant, as it pushes the practice of cremation, as well as ... read more

Find shows 4,000-year-old trade routes stretched from Carolinas to Great Lakes

Radiometric dating puts the burial at 4,100 to 3,980 years old, the same age as the shell ring itself. Among the bones, archaeologists found a copper band, broken and incomplete, and a few copper frag... read more

Planetary science: The time machine

In principle, Anderson's radiometric dating technique is similar to any other. It is based on the radioactive decay of one isotope into daughter isotopes according to a precise clock, a half-life, gov... read more

The Truthfulness of the Creator is at Stake

See also Paul Braterman’s explanation of why you should trust scientists rather than young-earth creationists when it comes to radiometric dating, and a recent example of dishonestly blaming evolution ... read more

Radiometric Dating:

Geologists have calculated the age of Earth at 4.6 billion years. But for humans whose life span rarely reaches more than 100 years, how can we be so sure of that ancient date? It turns out the answer... read more

Direct Radiometric Dating of Hydrocarbon Deposits Using Rhenium-Osmium Isotopes

Rhenium-osmium (Re-Os) data from migrated hydrocarbons establish the timing of petroleum emplacement for the giant oil sand deposits of Alberta, Canada, at 112 ± 5.3 million years ago. This date does ... read more

Video: How do we know the age of the Earth?

How do scientists know that? Since there's no "established in" plaque stuck in a cliff somewhere, geologists deduced the age of the Earth thanks to a handful of radioactive elements. With radiometric ... read more

Native Americans engaged in trade more extensively than thought

Radiometric dating using an accelerated mass spectrometer indicate that the remains and band are both more than 3,500 years old. This is significant, as it pushes the practice of cremation, as well as ... read more

How it works: Radiometric Dating

If you remember grade school and high school science, you may remember the basic structure of the atom. A normal atom is made up of two main structures: the nucleus and the electron cloud. The nucleus ... read more

Radiometric dating finds Earth is 2.2 billion years old

This amazing fact seemed like alchemy to many, but American chemist Bertram Borden Boltwood (1870-1927) was intrigued. Boltwood studied this concept of "radioactive series," and found that lead was al... read more

Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem

Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905, Israel Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhei Israel Street, Jerusalem, 95501, Israel Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimento... read more

In Situ Radiometric and Exposure Age Dating of the Martian Surface

7 Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 6th at Independence SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA. 8 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washi... read more