Fifty Years of Radiocarbon Dating

By R. E. Taylor

This widely applied technique has made major strides since its introduction a half-century ago at the University of Chicago

Anthropology Physics

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January-February 2000

Volume 88, Number 1
Page 60

DOI: 10.1511/2000.15.60

Since the 1350s, when a linen fabric bearing full-scale front and back images of what appeared to be a crucified man was first displayed in a small village in France, many people debated whether this famous cloth—later enshrined in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy—could have once served as the burial shroud for Jesus of Nazareth.

Photograph from the archive of Giovanni Riggi, provided courtesy of Paul Damon.

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