Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones

3 comments

• 4ndrewl 4 hours ago

  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 15 hours ago

  Yep. I suspected that that arctic shark couldn't be so old.
• archimedes237 1 hour ago

  Defiling the dead bodies of monks...