Maryland Dig May Reach Back 16,000 Years

Newsday ^ | 8-17-2004

[blam]

RAWLINGS, Md. -- Robert D. Wall is too careful a scientist to say he's on the verge of a sensational discovery. But the soybean field where the Towson University anthropologist has been digging for more than a decade is yielding hints that someone camped there, on the banks of the Potomac River, as early as 14,000 B.C. If further digging and carbon dating confirm it, the field in Allegany County could be among the oldest and most important archaeological sites in the Americas.

[ElkGroveDan]

ah I see all of archeology, paleontology and physical history are wrong and all of the cross-proven dating that has been developed from the interlinked disciplines over the past 300 years is all wrong and the whole scientific community is stumbling around in ignorance.

Sorry. I didn't realize that. I stand corrected.

[nmh]

I'm actually cutting you a break since carbon 14 dating isn't exactly flawless.

Silly one ... . You defend something that is extremely faulty.

[nmh]

I'm actually cutting you a break since carbon 14 dating isn't exactly flawless.

Silly one ... . You defend something that is extremely faulty. It doesn't matter how many people still use it.

[Graybeard58]

To calculate the radiocarbon age of a specimen, we need to compare the carbon-12/carbon-14 ratio now, with the carbon-12/carbon-14 ratio at the time of death. However, we do not know the ratio at the time of death, which means we have to make an assumption. Modern radiocarbon dating assumes that the carbon-14/carbon-12 ratio in living organisms is the same now as it was in ancient organisms before they died. In other words, the system of carbon-14 production and decay is said to be in a state of balance or equilibrium. Yet this assumption is questionable, even for an old Earth.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/defdocs/rr1993/r&r9310a.htm