HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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Question
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What tools do archaeologists use to tell the age of once-living things?
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Carbon-Dating
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Trowel
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Radar
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Sonar
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Archaeologists have long used carbon-14 dating (also known as radiocarbon dating) to estimate the age of certain objects. Traditional radiocarbon dating is applied to organic remains between 500 and 50, 000 years old and exploits the fact that trace amounts of radioactive carbon are found in the natural environment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because carbon-14 decays at this constant rate, an estimate of the date at which an organism died can be made by measuring the amount of its residual radiocarbon.
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