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Archaeology Problems
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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You can date rock like that with luminescene dating... My dude, it's great to wonder about the past. It's a beautiful thing but this guy isn't who you should be fixating on.
Is it not the case that the stone around the Sphinx was in situ or not “exposed to light (then re-buried)”? I’m assuming OSL is the technique since afaik the Sphinx structure wasn’t burned (TL)?
https://www.thoughtco.com/luminescence-dating-cosmic-method-171538
I see articles that OSL confirms established dates, just not sure how the exposed-to-light-then-reburied works. We know the Sphinx was buried in the late 18th century, but obviously had been uncovered at some point before that in order to be built - what effect would that have on the OSL dating?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263201697_Surface_luminescence_dating_of_some_Egyptian_monuments lol
lol. Yeah ok. That’s fine. Numbers and technology can’t lie.
https://annas-archive.gs/