Faruk Şüyün, one of the writers of Dünya Newspaper, wrote in his column "Focus Three Good News...''
My writing guests last week were foundations, the tireless workers of our cultural world...
I gave examples of some of their new, ongoing and upcoming projects. Today I want to talk about an important agreement, an anniversary and a CD. So, again, good things...
The first is a very important agreement. It was signed recently. It goes like this:
This is a cooperation protocol between the TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center (MAM) and the General Directorate of Cultural Assets and Museums within the scope of age determination with Carbon 14. This is a very exciting development, especially for the author of these lines, who loves prehistory and has a book on archaeology (The Adventures of an Archaeology Detective / Oğlak Publications)...
MAM is very important because the "Carbon 14 Laboratory" established here can go back 50 thousand years in the dating and age determination of organic remains. Imagine, 50 thousand years! TÜBİTAK MAM Vice President Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Makaracı lists the samples for age determination as charred material, wood, wood, etc., seeds, shellfish, coral and caco3, bone (by ultrafiltration method), leather, parchment, paper, textiles, teeth, pollen (extracted, dry), pottery shards (organic residue), horn and lime mortar (extracted organic material).
Well, what is the Carbon 14 method? It's a bit scientific, but it's based on Accelerated Mass Spectroscopy (AMS) technology. With AMS, atoms are made to travel in a straight line for 20 meters. The basic logic is similar to the technology used in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. And another good development is that the MAM Laboratory is being set up by a team of people who worked in Japan and the US as part of a reverse brain drain...
I hope that important universal conclusions will be reached after analyzing what has been seized in this laboratory in our lands, which harbor an incredibly rich archaeological heritage...
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Faruk Şüyün, one of the writers of Dünya Newspaper, wrote in his column "Odak" on 09.12.2016: ''' Three Good News...''
