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How can a piece of jade be carbon dated?

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Jade is not an appropriate material for carbon dating. To date such an artefact requires knowing - study of - the cultural layer in which it was found and even then, we may not be sure. Why were Pre-Columbian Societies so Drawn to Jade? read more

You can't carbon date a rock as such, but you can use other relative dating techniques such as looking at the rock strata surrounding the jade to determine an age; but to do this the rock strata has to not have shifted or been disturbed as that can lead to a false reading. read more

Direct radiocarbon dating on the rust showed the date of the axe to be in accordance with the date of presumed manufacture: 1900 B.C. To date, this is the oldest piece of iron-based material to be radiocarbon dated. It suggests that corrosion products contain original carbon that can be extracted and reliably radiocarbon dated. read more

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