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Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones

50 points • by gumby • last Wednesday at 10:18 PM • 6 comments • view on HN

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4ndrewl • yesterday at 7:47 PM

I thought this was a well known effect - it's certainly filtered down to some paperback popsci archaeology books I've read in the past few years.

pvaldes • yesterday at 8:42 AM

Yep. I suspected that that arctic shark couldn't be so old.

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archimedes237 • yesterday at 11:06 PM

Defiling the dead bodies of monks...