Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the copied drawings, the expedition brought back tools, mortars for grinding colors, personal ornaments, even pearls from some distant sea. Some of the finds contain carbon and can be dated by radioactive carbon 14. When this has been done, and when scholars have studied the drawings and artifacts, a history of a sort can be written of the fertile river plateau that slowly died of thirst after the glaciers melted...
Through professional archaeological friends, the amateurs got their hearth dated by a new carbon 14 apparatus in the laboratory of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. at Houston. Last week Crook and Harris were celebrating the second and bigger climax: the charcoal had proved to be 37,000 years...
Ancient Hearths. Diggers' discoveries nowadays are apt to have two moments of climax: 1) when the article is found, and 2) when its age is determined, often months later, by the carbon 14 process...
...have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...
...last week NATO South command listed 692 U.S. officers and men, who were provided "logistic support" (carbon paper, groceries, Kleenex, cigarettes, household appliances, etc., etc.) by 2,103 military and 534 civilian aides in town, supporting a resounding total of 3,166 wives and children. What do they all do? Explained one Navyman: "All those people take in each other's washing...