archaeological dating

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archaeological dating

Mummies, dinosaurs, moon rocks

how we know how old things are
1996
Explores the ways in which scientists can find the age of objects, using processes like carbon dating, tree-ring dating, and potassium-argon testing, and shows how knowing the age of archeological finds is an important part of learning about the Earth's past.
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