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Is it impossible that an early western settler brought these artifacts when they were already old? Like me carrying a roman coin and loosing it in today Siberi
by jhoechtl 6y ago
Is it impossible that an early western settler brought these artifacts when they were already old?
Like me carrying a roman coin and loosing it in today Siberia for example?
- konjin 6y ago>Venetian glass trade beads in radiocarbon-dated contexts that predate Columbus's discovery of the Western Hemisphere. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/precolumbian-presence-of-venetian-glass-trade-beads-in-arctic-alaska/3465746929B31ADBC6E1D1A23D09A2CD https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...
- scribu 6y agoEuropean settlers reached Alaska only in 1741, so the organic material around the beads - which is what was used for carbon dating - would have had to survive wear and tear for centuries. Not very likely.