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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by pvaldes on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:33PM (#22303687)
Phoenix dactilifera never went extinct (and the origin of this date is still questionable IMHO).
Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:40AM (#22308708)
This variety was gone, for 2000 years. The origin date was pretty firmly established. 'IMHO' is worth much less than a measurement, which indicated from 2200 to 1800 years.
Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by pvaldes on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:38AM (#22319066)
"IMHO" there are a lot of well known problems with carbone datation. You can read about it in scientific journals and make your own opinion.

Any measurement can have errors of methodology, and a wrong measurement does not have any value. Don't worship numbers just because they seem fancy or fit with a narrative. They are just that, a number.

Without a genetical analysis we can not know if a plant variety is lost, or just forgotten, or a clone of a extant variety buried ten years ago. Show me the analysis before to start talking abour old ruins, caravans and lost cities.

Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by JoeAltmaier on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:41PM (#22323260)
So theres uncertainty in dating, and its only 1000 years extinct? This is more FUD.
Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by pvaldes on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:08PM (#22323380)
Keep thinking about the problem and you will eventualy find the big, huge, ginormous, elephant in the room.