Carbon Dating

[uzd]

How ya'll are I garontee. Miss ol'Justin

Gonna spend the money to have a piece carbon dated by an ISO approved lab. Has anyone had any experience that might be helpful. If so I'd appreciate you sharing it. Thinking about contacting a collection manager w/a university and see if they are interested. Thanks

 

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[Mackaydon]

Yes, I have experience. I was tested at between 75 and 80; they got that right.
Cowtown...used to be Ft.Worth. Is it still?
Don..........

 

[lastleg]

Sorry Don. Ole Cowtown is no more. Where I grew up. I miss the old days.

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Yes, I have experience. I was tested at between 75 and 80; they got that right.
Cowtown...used to be Ft.Worth. Is it still?
Don..........

Still called Cowtown, they still run the cattle twice a day down Exchange Ave. but the Armour meat packing plant has been shuttered for a while.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Piece of what? Carbon-14 dating only works with organisms or material that exchanged atmosphere (i.e. animals, plants, ice or concrete with trapped air bubbles). Also less useful with marine animals and plants because the level of Carbon-14 is different in seawater than air.

It's also kind of 1950's technology. There are much better radiometric isotope tests that are in current use. Some work on non-living artifacts and can tell, say, when a rock was worked based on comparing the fractured face with undesturbed portions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating

 

[Mackaydon]

Back in the day........there was a place near the FW stockyards that served beer from a self-serve cooler. The 'honor system' was in play. When you were about to leave you mentioned to the cashier how many beers you had taken and that cost was added to your food bill.
If that restaurant still exists, I have my doubt the same pay system does.
Great memories.
I apologize for the off-thread comments.
Don......

 

[uzd]

The item is a petrified wood owl. It was the top of a totem carved in a catalpa tree w/a stone ax. Fire was used to make eyes/face and a small carbon footprint remains. It was submerged for many years when lake was inundated ...so. It caused a fair amount of damage. Lost charred material/porous .....

 

[uzd]

Thanks for the info, I've got a couple of items waiting for osl evaluation. CD almost useless in Centex due to wet/dry cycle. OSL has taken some guff lately..what's the ticket for incised limestone?

 

[uzd]

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[uzd]

yeah Eric Clapton's fav Bbq joint. So many come and go.

I'm pretty stubborn, everything I've learned a mule taught me.

Talkin in riddles, I'll pursue stuff that isn't right forever. Why so many marbles in old dumps?

I finally figured out why the old dumps have an abundance of crummy marbles and the hi dollar glass is always shattered. The .22 hulls replaced the marbles in the top layers.

 

[hvacker]

What does carbon dating cost??