Re: The Dawn of Art: a preview

On Aug 26, 1:12 pm, "Michael Kuettner" <mik...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:1187983410.320666.48100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The opening paragraphs of an interesting article in Archaeology,
September/October, 2007. An archaeologist's thesis hanging on the
quirks of radio carbon dating from an era known for its wildly
fluctuating levels of C-14 in the atmosphere. His work is further
complicated by the fact that he working with material excavated in the
1930s, stored during WWII, and only examined in the 1960s.

Except that the flutes were excavated in 2005.
16 C14 examinations plus thermo-luminiscence.

<http://www.archaeologie-online.de/magazin/fundpunkt/ausgrabungen/2005...>

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

There are exceptions all along, but his biggest problem is the dating
of what was found in the 1930s, correlating it with what he finds now
and getting around some of the 29000 year old items being found below
40,000 year old items.

He has the same problem the "before Clovis" and "coastal migration"
groups have/had in America. Proving something he thinks is provable
against the disbelief of his audience.

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