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To: C19fan

They dated the wood, not the artwork.


9 posted on 04/30/2018 7:20:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

How, then, are stone carvings “dated”?


18 posted on 04/30/2018 7:37:47 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: mewzilla
They dated the wood, not the artwork.

So it is possible that the wood was already dead 5,000 years when the carving was done- but not at all likely since unprotected wood breaks down very quickly.

25 posted on 04/30/2018 8:14:05 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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