Radiocarbon dating can fail, but archeology can still save the day. This is the key message of the seminar that Elisabetta Boaretto, physicist of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, will give at SISSA on Friday 27 September. Boaretto, a leading authority on radiocarbon dating, will present some of the results achieved while studying Iron Age Jerusalem. Together with her team, she managed to exploit Jerusalem's rich past, including textual evidence and vast archaeological remains, to overcome difficult problems in radiocarbon dating. She will show that the key to resolving these problems is to apply stringent field methodologies using microarchaeological methods, leading to densely radiocarbon-dated stratigraphic sequences.
The seminar will take place on Friday 27 September at 2 pm in room 139.
Image credits: Johanna Regev/Weizmann Institute