Posted on 10/03/2020 5:26:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Thank you. Great summation.
You sure they weren’t domesticated by the Mayans?
https://uncoveredhistory.com/honduras/copan/the-elephants-of-copan/
They always add “not caused by a single event.” I wonder why?
Dating is never that precise. Carbon dating before 1400BC goes off the rails when dating known events. Any dating before then is suspect and somewhat arbitrary.
Carbon dating, properly done, is certainly more precise than to give an age of “between 20,000 and 10,000 years” for a single event. There is always imprecision in any method of radiometric dating. The article didn’t give any estimates of uncertainty for the dates, but I’d bet that they wouldn’t be several thousand years.
So they (whoever they are) operated mammoth traps for 10,000 years?
Like I said before carbon dating goes of the rails before 1400bc in a progressive fashion. The difference between 10,000 And 20,000 years could be conceivably just 200 actual years. Truth is we do not know other than the dating is unreliable. Since we do not know how to correlate the dates to actual time we use what we get. But it leaves a potential misconception about what is really going on.
Where did the article say anything about humans killing any of the mammoths?
It didn’t. I have been following the find for some time. Sorry.
The article is incomplete on what they have found.
No worries. All I’ve seen about it was the article posted today. So, were some or all of the mammoths killed by humans, then?
As for the reliability of the carbon dating done for this particular project, I can’t really tell much one way or the other without going to the actual scientific publications about it. Unfortunately, I have a lot of other things to do, so I probably won’t.
Mammoths should have put up a sign that said: STAY OUT!
BBQ
Since carbon-14 has a half life of 5,730 years, carbon dating is valid (with increasing plus or minus error ) up to about 60,000 years depending on the carbon content of the sample. Advances in mass-spect equipment has made it more accurate particularly with small samples. Have you been involved in any branch of radiometric dating?
The issue is the results spin off around 1400bc from historical dates. There are those that point out that hc is the real constant if this us true is might explain what is going on with radiometric dating which assumes c is constant. The issue is not the measurement but the interpretation of the measurement taken. If c and h are changing then so is the decay rate.
“The Comet strike ushered in the Younger Dryas Period which was even colder than the Ice Age and lasted another 1000 years when another part of the comet cloud struck earth and ended the cold and began the present warming period we are in geologically.”
Pardon my iggernunce, but why does one strike make it cold and the next make it warm?
There was a Mammoth population on Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic up until 4000 years ago.
Mammoths and Ancient Egyptian culture existed at the same point in time.
but why does one strike make it cold and the next make it warm?
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Confusing right? The first event struck the ice cap in the vicinity of the Great Lakes an caused temps to plummet from all the fires whose as rose to make a long period of what we would call a “nuclear winter”.
The second, a 1000 year later, ended the Younger Dryas by possibly shattering a ice blockage of the Gulf Stream (this is just a scenario, as it cannot be proved at this time, but is a likely conjecture). Releasing the Gulf Stream warm ocean currents thawed the shores of the Atlantic as it does to this day
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