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Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?
by popol12 10mo ago
Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?
- ninalanyon 10mo agoI can think of several plausible reasons: - it costs money and no one wants to pay, - the mystery is more interesting or amusing than the resolution of the mystery, - carbon dating is unreliable for dates following the industrial revolution because the burning of coal and oil ejected vast quantities of depleted carbon into the atmosphere.