[extropy-chat] Addwaita:250 years is a long time.

MB mbb386 at main.nc.us
Tue Mar 28 12:12:00 UTC 2006


> It will be interesting to see if efforts to date Addwaita using carbon
> dating will yield any useful information (I don't believe the carbon
> dating
> can be used with much certainty for periods of hundreds of years).
>
>

It is my understanding that 14C dating is used in historical archaeology
to pin down dates withing 3-5 years.

Regards,
MB




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