Can anyone give me some reasons why carbon dating is important in archaeology?

Question

I have that it is accurate but i am struggling or more reasons. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

By using it we can get an idea of the sequence of events. It helps determine how long somethings were around.

Answer 2

On Earth, carbon is always present in living things. People, and every other form of life on Earth are carbon-based. We use other forms of life in fashioning most of the artifacts that constitute the material aspects of our culture: skins and plants for clothes, bones, skins and plants for shelter, plants and bones for weapons, bones and plants for eating utensils. Accordingly, carbon dating is extremely useful in dating artifacts from ancient cultures, up to about 50,000-60,000 years ago. It can't be used for anything older than that, however.

Answer 3

1) generally safer and relatively easier to control - due to stability of carbon
2) use in determining the organic matter of fossils
3) generally cheaper to produce than others
4) plentiful - most of the earth consists of carbon
5) different levels of 'earth' contain different traces of carbon
etc....

Answer 4

Because it is commonly preserved in dig sites in the form of charcoal and ash from fires: wherever you find human settlement you will find a fire of some kind.

Answer 5

allegedly accurate - however, some substances 'leak' carbon 14 and that loss shows that these objects are older than they really are

the real killer is to back date the half life of the magnetic north pole - when scientists figure out what could have been the MOST it could ever had held - is only 14,000 years ago

oooops

Answer 6

its especially important because it helps in knowing how old some thing is .
like u can tell the living period of a dinosaur from its bone or fossil