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Radiocarbon dating helps scientist today to learn more about early man. Carbon dating is half-life of carbon-14 to find the approximate age of a fossil through carbon-14? When scientist want to find how old an object is, they burn small peices of it, turning it into carbon dioxide gas.  Radiation counters are used then uesed to find the electrons, which are given off by decaying carbon-14 as it transferred into nitrogen. The amount of carbon-14 is compared to the amount of carbon-12 to find how much radiocarbon has been decayed. Wood,Charcoal, Marine, Freshwatetr shells, bones and antlers are some examples of items that can be dated using RadioCarbon.      There are many interesting facts about radiocarbon dating. In World War II Willard F. Libby and coworkers developed radiocarbon dating. Several scientists in world are now wanting to improve the process. Carbon-14 has helped archaeologists date artifacts up to 6,500 to  7,000  years old.      RadioCarbon dating is important because it is one of the most accurate ways of dating objects from the stone age. Scientist study radiocarbon dating so they now could find out how old the bones age or objects that they find.

Claw that was carbon dated

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"Advances in Radio Carbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry now make it possible to date prehistoric cave paintings by sampling the pigment itself instead of relying on dates derived from miscellaneous prehistioric remains recovered the vicinity of the paintings."       - Helene Valladas-