The phrase "accurately date" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the precise identification of a time or period related to an event or object.
Example: "The archaeologist was able to accurately date the artifacts found at the excavation site."
Alternatives: "precisely date" or "correctly date".
You can accurately date an episode of Come Dine with Me by the shrill desperation in Dave Lamb's voice as he tries to keep audiences interested.
The only way you can accurately date an episode is by scrutinising Matthew Perry's face for the ravages of drug-related exhaustion.
But Stierlin has argued that while it is possible to carbon date the pigments, which appear to be ancient Egyptian, it is impossible to accurately date the bust because it is made of stone covered in plaster.
Researchers often depend on study subjects to estimate their pregnancy risk at the time of unprotected sex themselves, but many do not accurately date their menstrual cycles, skewing the results, the review noted.
Q. How can scientists accurately date when stone tools were made, like those found at Lake Turkana in Kenya? A. "An artifact like a tool made from flint is usually not dated directly but instead according to the age of the sediment layers it is found in," said Dennis V. Kent, a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
It has not been possible, however, to accurately date ancient sediments--which hold clues to past environments--unless these layers contain volcanic ash.
If these hoards are found later and can be accurately dated, they can serve as a proxy to help characterize certain periods of history.
The remains, made up of two skulls (Omo 1 and Omo 2), were initially dated to 130 kya, but through the application of more-sophisticated dating techniques in 2005 the remains have been more accurately dated to 195 kya.
The scientists, noting that the earliest presence of human ancestors in Europe is "one of the most debated topics in paleoanthropology," said the site, Sima del Elefante in the Atapuerca Mountains, held the "oldest, most accurately dated record" of both fossils and artifacts of human occupation in Western Europe.
Accurately dating sites and correlating between them is thus an important research priority.
Vallparadís is one of the best calibrated and most accurately dated archaeological sites from the European Early Pleistocene.
