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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

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[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

a cosmologist wouldn't even know what carbon is. it's just some kind of metal.

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They'll probably date bones in the future by how much plastic is in them.

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 0 points 1 week ago

in where

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Bones

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

Well they ain't wrong.

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