That's incredibly interesting, thanks. >It doesn't need to have a living tree. Faulty assumption on my part. Obviously one can date dead wood just the same, I

That's incredibly interesting, thanks. >It doesn't need to have a living tree. Faulty assumption on my part. Obviously one can date dead wood just the same, I just assumed that non-living samples from ancient eras would be harder to come by or of lower quality having been deconstructed. While it seems that there's some truth to that, it couldn't be more wrong from a composite point of view.