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scottmagdalein
on Oct 18, 2013
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Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolut...
Scientists, if carbon dating is limited to ~50,000 years or so, how do archeologists date things into the millions of years with accuracy?
phansch
on Oct 18, 2013
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Carbon dating is just a subset of radiometric dating. You can leverage the decay rates of (almost) any element to estimate the age of an object.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Fundamentals...
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madaxe
on Oct 18, 2013
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Also stratification and artefact context.
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