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> Groucutt and the rest of the team used a number of dating methods to confirm the likely age of the Al Wusta finger. For the finger itself and the tooth of an ancient hippopotamus found nearby, they applied U-series dating

Quite a trick for some dude in a caravan 100 years ago to be able to simulate 85,000 years of radioactive decay.



>"Quite a trick for some dude in a caravan 100 years ago to be able to simulate 85,000 years of radioactive decay."

I don't think it is usually the constant decay rate assumption that can go wrong. It is instead the assumption that the isotopes were being generated and deposited at the same rates way back then. This does depend on environmental factors.




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