01-12-2026, 08:09 AM
(01-11-2026, 07:31 PM)rickymouse Wrote: I personally knew a guy who has a business doing carbon dating. When talking to him at the motel bar after his presentation at night, he mentioned that carbon dating ancient things can lead to questionable results, because often the places were utilized by new groups of people long after the structures were built. He said it was hard sometimes to get estimates with carbon dating and the work to try to figure out things more accurately was time consuming. Some structures through history were remodeled or revamped many times...and carbon dating only identifies carbon based things, mostly organic stuff. It is easy to date things like bone and adjustments have to be made by the historic changes in the environment in that area. Also consensus of the time...the beliefs of the people who hire him need to be considered. He mentioned that often many time frames were present in his testing so he has to choose which is the best timeframe. Sometimes his estimates can say say three thousand to thirty thousand years ago.
We talked a little about some OOP fossils of dinosaurs, some he tested were maybe ten thousand years old, but he said those results were skewed by the environment...I guess there are reasons that carbon dating does not work well in some places. I think he mentioned those dino bones were somewhere in Montana on some mountain area out west here in America...could have been Wyoming or somewhere out that way
That was an interesting conversation I had with him.
That's the reason for COMPREHENSIVE testing.
Keep in mind - NO site can be dated solely on one single radiocarbon test.
One date is no date.
C14 dating is only one of the several avenues pursued for dating the Old Kingdom constructions.
Take a look at the results of one of the C14 assays I mentioned. Note the ranges found and the number of different structures tested.
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index..../3874/3299
Harte
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