"Radiocarbon years" refers to the age of an object or sample, but it is specifically based on the amount of radiocarbon present in the object. It is used by scientists to estimate how long ago something lived or died.
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Around 14,000 years ago (about 13,000
radiocarbon years ago), there was a rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades.
The use of complementary dating techniques described in § 2 along with the systematic comparison of clone - size distributions between all post-fire lichen - tundra sites (figure 7c, d) helped to discriminate individual fires, at least back to the last 1000 years and also fires older than 1000
radiocarbon years typically recorded in all the woodlands and krummholz of the study area.
Of these the six that have «clear, undeniable and extensive artifact associations» average at 13,955 to 14,555
radiocarbon years ago.
Around 14,000 years ago (about 13,000
radiocarbon years ago), there was a rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades.