[miliantnutcase]

Wouldn’t every bit of carbon 14 be gone after, say, 10000 years? How can they state with certainty that this skeleton is 12000 years old? They had other methods of finding the approximate age in the article. They knew this had to have happened prior to 10,000 years ago. There were mineral formations growing on the skeleton from when it was a dry pit with moisture dripping from the ceiling.

[stremba]

See my post above. C-14 dating is reliable for an age of 12,000 years. Upper limit is about 50,000 years.