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Physics and Archaeology
Guinnessy writes: "In 1960 Willard Frank Libby won a Nobel Prize for his work on radiocarbon dating, a technique that truly revolutionize archaeology. Now Physics Today magazine has an article describing how new methods are yielding more accurate dates for our prehistoric ancestors, profoundly affecting our understanding of the past. Neat stuff."
be useful in determining exactly when "Quirky Engeneers" went the way of the dinasour? ;)
If I can't see it in Lynx I'm not interested.
Boy, if we have more accurate techniques, the Scientific Creationism community is going to have to come up with new excuses to explain away why things test older than they claim the Earth to be...
From the article:
At 4.1 billion years, the halflife of 40Ar is ideal for dating ancient humans.
OK...if you're into that sort of thing.
I prefer 'em a little younger, though.
If I weren't nailed to the penis, I'd be pushing up the daisies!
Indiana Jones and the Lost Particle
they can explain why Quirky Engineers have gone the way of the dinosaur...
I heard someone say that the biggest technological contribution to archaeology in the last 50 years was the zip-lok bag.
the bible tells me that there is just no way that stuff could be that old.
hee hee.
silly bible.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.