By this method Dr. Richards's team was able to date the migrations into Europe.
One also carries such a detailed written description of an eclipse that, as Harrison said, with the assistance of Nasa, the library was able to date it to 27 December 1192BC – between 9.48 and 11.30pm, give or take 17 minutes.
Using a couple of contextual clues — a tune here, a box score there — she was able to date the first recording to the early 1950s and to then identify the voices it captured.
In 2003, Country Life magazine named the five-bedroom, three-bath property England's oldest private home (royal palaces and castles were excluded from the survey) after it was able to date some original features to the first half of the 12th century.
By estimating how quickly sediment piled up in the pond over time, the team was able to date the first spike in pond chemistry--an indication of the Inuit's arrival--to about 1200 C.E., which agrees with carbon-14 dating from antlers found at the site.
By sequencing most of the nuclear genome, the team was able to date the split of the two species of woolly mammoths to more than 1.5 million years ago and to confirm that mammoths have far less genetic diversity than primates, for example, which may have made them more susceptible to extinction.
