Posted on 02/24/2015 2:46:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Maybe so mouthwash would help.
... as well as knowing IF that 'what might cause' ... has actually occurred.
Wouldn't James Taranto headline this "The Lonely Lives of Archaelogists"?
LOL
Bravo that someone challenged this scientific process and showed its flaws. Too many scientists are lazy and blindly accept “proven” testing methods as infallible. Physicist Richard Feynman regular challenged accepted truths like this. For example, he found that the popular rat maze experiment process has holes... the construction of the maze would affect the sound of the rats footsteps in certain parts of the maze and the rats were able to use that sound to navigate.
Excellent example of the fact that there is NO SETTLED SCIENCE! If we can find flaws like this in small mundane processes, how can anyone say that the global climate theories are settled science?
I sure someone out there digs the idea of dating an archaeologist.
Any archeologist I’ve ever met couldn’t get a date...fish diet or not.
I’ve seen a few I wouldn’t mind excavating.
A New Way to Date Old Ceramics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2659498/posts
We learned that seals were coming to a bad end and being mummified by nature in Antarctica in 1200 A.D. That was interesting and we wondered what was happening in Antarctica at that time...one of the technicians... noticed that a seal carcass that he himself had shot for dog-meat and that got left out through the winter... [looked] just like the mummified seals that they had been sending in. So without telling too many people what he was doing, he sent this mummified seal to be carbon-dated and do you know it was dated to 1200 A.D., and he had shot it the year before. When that was made public it really caused a storm...
So I guess that archaeologists are now working on correction factors to calibrate the carbon-dated age of sea fish, river fish, and wood.
That image is pretty disgusting, btw. If that is a stew, I don’t think I would eat it.
LOL! Good one.
They should try oysters instead of fish.
How much of the tax payers money went into this “highly important” study?
Do I really care what diet an archaeologist consumes or if he/she gets a date? Another really high priority for all of us to “digest” (sorry couldn’t resist that word).
Sorry Freepers. I’m in a pissy mood today having read so many highly important articles.
I've always had problems dating archaeologists after eating fish. :-P
hmmm. Gives more credence to replicating data.
That’s a fine kett- uh, never mind.
Some would be found in a sift.
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