Radiocarbon age is calculated from the δ13C-corrected Fraction Modern according to the following formula: Age = -8033 ln (Fm) Reporting of ages and/or activities follows the convention outlined by Stuiver and Polach (1977) and Stuiver (1980).

What is a radiocarbon age?

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby.

How do you determine the age of carbon-14?

Because carbon-14 decays at this constant rate, an estimate of the date at which an organism died can be made by measuring the amount of its residual radiocarbon.