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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay
Yes but if the accuracy is only "reasonable" for time periods for which you can actually find dated materials, how can you assume that it's accurate for items even older. You personally are free to trust carbon dating, for myself I remain very skeptical. Anything beyond a couple of hundred years old and I think you're pretty much just making educated guesses.
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But there are lots of dated materials that are thousands of years old.
By reasonable, I mean that it won't give you exact date and time, but the margin of error is reasonably small. Certainly small enough that it is far better than what I would call an "educated guess".