210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia

Re:210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern ... by zarathustraa on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:43AM (#20412404)

> When it comes to figuring out how old something is, archaeologists are interested in one element in particular: uranium.

I though fossils were dated with Carbon-14. Did that change?

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Re:210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern ... by ergothus on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:52AM (#20412483)

C14 dating loses precision dramatically past a certain age (~50k years, IIRC), because of the nature of half-lives. Since this is in the 200k range, C14 wouldn't be the go-to.

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Re:210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern ... by kwk1 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:01PM (#20413215)

Carbon dating is merely one technique in the field of radioisotope dating.

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