7,000-year-old human skeleton recovered in south Tehran

[Pakistani E]

Radiocarbon dating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carbon-14 dating is a way of determining the age of certain archeological artifacts of a biological origin up to about 50,000 years old. It is used in dating things such as bone, cloth, wood and plant fibers that were created in the relatively recent past by human activities.

It doesn't say anywhere in the article that it has been carbon dated. What it says is that initial estimates, I want to know what these initial estimates are based on.

 

[The Last of us]

It doesn't say anywhere in the article that it has been carbon dated. What it says is that initial estimates, I want to know what these initial estimates are based on.

How many methods do you know that are used to date ancient human bones etc?
Do they need to specifically mention their method? Considering how Iran uses carbon dating for almost all other such tests, I don't see why this case will be different.

 

[Abii]

How many methods do you know that are used to date ancient human bones etc?
Do they need to specifically mention their method? Considering how Iran uses carbon dating for almost all other such tests, I don't see why this case will be different.

There are only a few methods. The most common is looking at the layer of soil where the specimen was found and trying to find the age of the layer, sort to speak. The more accurate method is radiocarbon dating. The article doesn't mention it. Without it being mentioned we have to assume that is hasn't been carbon dated yet.