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Scientists, if carbon dating is limited to ~50,000 years or so, how do archeologists date things into the millions of years with accuracy?
by scottmagdalein 13y ago
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 13y agoCarbon 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. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Fundamentals_of_radiometric_dating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Fundamentals...)
- madaxe 13y agoAlso stratification and artefact context.