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From cave art to climate chaos: how a new carbon dating timeline is changing our view of history – The Conversation AU
The updated methods are providing a clearer picture of how Earth and its inhabitants evolved over the past 60,000 years – and thus, providing new insight into its future.
Geological and archaeological records offer important insights into what seems to be an increasingly uncertain future.
The better we understand what conditions Earth has already experienced, the better we can predict (and potentially prevent) future threats.
But to do this effectively, we need an accurate way to date what happened in the past.
Our research, published today in the journal Radiocarbon, offers a way to do just that, through an updated method of calibrating the radiocarbon tim…
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