Those dates also baffle me. How were they determined? If you do the math, there would ne much more people living today if we have ben around that long.
>> “Those dates also baffle me. How were they determined?” <<
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They extracted them from the same location as the poop came from.
Lie expectancy before invention of modern medicine was abysmally low. Food was scarce, shelter was brutal and medicines were non-existent. We are so dammmm lucky to be living in the current times.
Not given the low fertility caused by the brutal conditions plus an extremely high infant mortality rate.
Perhaps they wiped with newspaper ;-)
Probably by radio-carbon dating. 50,000 years is getting close to the maximum you can measure with carbon dating. I saw a couple sites that said 60,000 years is the maximum because there isn't enough C14 to measure accurately.
If you do the math, there would ne much more people living today if we have ben around that long.
Except for those times when you lose half the population due to plague, starvation or a major Cro-Magnon ass kicking.