Calibrated years before the present?
Is that the same as BC, as in years Before Christ?
Words matter, and academics jump through hoops to avoid the obvious.
The entire world’s chronological calculating system is still based on the Christian revolution of 2,000 years ago, like it or not.
I love history, including learning about new discoveries of early man, but it’s time that the intellectual class faced the truth and stop looking for ways to deny the history they so ardently investigate.
It doesn’t mean they have to be believers, just recognize the truth of how humanity’s time on earth is chronicled.
Failure to do so lends an air of unwarranted bias to their findings, reading their research with one eyebrow raised at their intransigence.
Interesting results, though.
RC dating uses Before Present, because obviously the object ages along with the rest of us. RC dating uses a baseline of 1950, because that’s when Bibby developed the technique. It isn’t avoiding the obvious, it is plainly obvious. The calibration refers to tree-ring dendrochronology. Period. Not BC, not AD. Raw RC dates are based on a uniform ratio, but due to variation in solar activity, the actual ratio also varies. More here, BenLurkin wondered about this last week or so.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4276885/posts?page=10#10
I guess that would be around 3000BC. It is amazing what these idiots will do in order to not reference Christ.
No, it’s 2024 years different from BC.
No , this is not theft of a Christian calender unlike “BCE” and “CE”.
BP (before present) is based on the year 1950.
Before the Common Era….BCE
Now in common usage