The Clock That Never Stops: What Carbon-14 Reads in Bone, Tooth, and Hair
From the physics of radioactive decay to the Cold War's accidental forensic gift, how a mummy roughly 2,700 years old anchors the method's historical…
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The Skull in the Garden: Hidden Corpses Unveiling Centuries-Old Secrets and Why Modern Forensics Brings the Truth to Light
A Bavarian pool project unearthed a human skull with perimortem gunshot trauma. Radiocarbon dating, AMS, and the bomb pulse show how physics separates archaeology…