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Originally Posted by Woogieman
I only know that carbon is needed...how accurate would you say c dating could get if dating something 5,000 yrs old? 100 years? 1,000 yrs?
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I'm an historian, not a physicist but my understanding is that the older the object, the less accurate the dating is.
So using carbon dating for things 10's of thousands of years old and even older isn't all that relevant.