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Questioning the unexamined life…

Carbon Dating, pt 2: Calculations and Accuracy

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

When I started my first post, which you can read below, I had sated that I didn’t find much online literature that put all the pieces together in a detailed manner. If I had seen this article by Woolf1, I might have just posted a link and made some commentary. Woolf explains very eloquently the […]

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Carbon Dating: A comprehensive look, pt. 1

Monday, June 23rd, 2014

Radiocarbon dating, or Carbon14 (14C) dating, (among other radiometric dating methods) is a key method to determine the age of organic material used within archaeology today. Without radiometric dating methods, it can be argued that science would have few ways to really know how old an object is. Therefore, the validity of the method is […]

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