What type of radiometric dating do archeologists use to date an artifact that was once a living organism?

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What type of radiometric dating do archeologists use to date an artifact that was once a living organism?

2007-12-19 07:08:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History

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Carbon Dating. It uses the decay of a once organic creature as it looses the radiation that build up over a lifetime.

2007-12-19 07:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Carbon dating, because all life on earth is carbon-based, and has a certain amount of radioactive carbon in it from the critter's life, which then decays between their death and the present day.

2007-12-19 16:08:03 · answer #2 · answered by Q 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋