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Dedicated at the University of Chicago on October 10, 2016. In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly ...

WHEN CARBON dating was discovered in 1946, it revolutionised archaeology. An age could suddenly be put to unearthed remains of living things that had expired within the past 50,000 years. But changes ...