A Radiocarbon Dating Reevaluation May Lead To Timeline Changes Of Items Dated In The Holy Land

For years, the standard way to date ancient organic items for history was to use radiocarbon dating. It has been an important dating tool available to scientists and archaeologists who deal with organic matter regularly and are often required to date these items accurately to place them within context and timelines.

Also called carbon dating or carbon-14 dating, this method involves isolating the radioactive carbon within organic matter to determine the age of it. By locating the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in organic matter, scientists could determine the age of an item. Every living thing continues to exchange carbon while it is alive. However, once something dies, be it flora or fauna, the collection of carbon ceases. Therefore, radiocarbon dating is used to measure when this occurred in order to date an item. Read more.