Tag Archives: Radiocarbon

Rings of ancient trees can hold stories of epic space explosions

Dying giant star, not a peaceful event. It explodes its outer material in a tremendous explosion, irradiating the space with high-energy gamma radiation for many years. The empty space is not just exposed to this radiation. New research suggests that ancient trees on Earth may have evidence of celestial explosions. …

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Pot relics reveal the secrets of ancient cuisine

A team of archaeologists from the University of California, Berkeley has published a new research paper in the journal Scientific reports , Which presents evidence that unglazed ancient ceramics sometimes retain microscopic food residues, which, after chemical analysis, can reveal not only what was cooked in a pot, but also …

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