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Title: Radiometric dating techniques available to anthropologists
Post by: Mediademics on Jan 11, 2018
Radiometric dating techniques available to anthropologists
 
  A. work only for nonhuman primates, because genus Homo had culture.
  B. have caused a re-evaluation of the fossil record since their 1991 development.
  C. can only be used to date inorganic materials that are more than 1 million years old.
  D. do not work well for hominin fossils, because such fossils are too young for the effective range of the techniques.
  E. establish a probable date for fossils by calculating radioactive decay in the specimen found or the rocks surrounding it.


Title: Radiometric dating techniques available to anthropologists
Post by: le_ikari on Jan 11, 2018
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