Posted: Jun 05, 2017 5:01 pm
Wortfish wrote:newolder wrote:Wortfish, The half-life of carbon-14 is 5 730 years, give or take a few years. 10 half-lives, after which the original content has decayed such that approximately 0.1% remains, takes us to 57 300 years ago. A species a further 200 000 back in time would have virtually no 'time of death' C-14 remaining in a sample. The 'obvious' dating method would, therefore, not be carbon-14.
OK. But they were right that the bones were relatively recent. It still might be interesting to a carbon-14 test just to make sure.
Knock yourself out - and report back after you regain consciousness.
