Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones

4 comments

• 4ndrewl 4 hours ago
  I thought this was a well known effect - it's certainly filtered down to some paperback popsci archaeology books I've read in the past few years.
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  • bcraven 2 hours ago
    This appears to be a comment, highlighting a case study that demonstrates the effect in detail.

    It is not purporting to show it as 'new'.
  • Legend2440 30 minutes ago
    I remember reading about it as a kid, in 1990s creationist books that were attempting to argue that carbon dating couldn't be trusted and the world was actually only 6,000 years old.
• pvaldes 15 hours ago
  Yep. I suspected that that arctic shark couldn't be so old.
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  • gus_massa 8 hours ago
    I think the age is calculated counting the "rings" in ... [looking at google] ... the vertebrae.
• archimedes237 55 minutes ago
  Defiling the dead bodies of monks...