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An_Average_Player t1_j6tgiq5 wrote

Reply to comment by keyboardstatic in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator

A relatively simple way scientists date things is by using carbon dating. Now, this is only accurate a few hundred years either side, due to the nature of carbon dating. However, by any more than ~200 years is not really going to happen. We just have too much evidence.

The stonework has been proven to be actually pretty easy with the simple tools they built, it just took a lot of slaves to build it.

And it's unlikely, just due to the sheer amount of evidence we have, from a fossil record if you mean that much older, to built structures, or lack thereof.

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CrustalTrudger t1_j6u7vol wrote

> Now, this is only accurate a few hundred years either side, due to the nature of carbon dating.

This would be a pretty terrible radiocarbon date, most have uncertainty in the range a few decades at most (e.g., Scott et al., 2007).

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