Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray

Re:Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution int... by scottmagdalein on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:42PM (#6569656)

Scientists, if carbon dating is limited to ~50,000 years or so, how do archeologists date things into the millions of years with accuracy?

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Re:Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution int... by phansch on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:59PM (#6569703)

Carbon dating is just a subset of radiometric dating. You can leverage the decay rates of (almost) any element to estimate the age of an object.

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Re:Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution int... by madaxe on Friday October 18, 2013 @03:58AM (#6570281)

Also stratification and artefact context.

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