human history goes back well before 6000 years
Just a recent story that appeared last week
According to whose measurement? How do you know that the measurement is sound? Are they perhaps failing to take massive contamination into account?
Human history doesn’t go back further than about 6000 years, but our metrics to gauge the age of some materials exponentially rank into earlier times.
One must discern which object has more veracity, radiocarbon dating techniques or the Word of God.
About as much veracity as I can attribute to radiocarbon dating, is that it is a metric with many assumptions, when consistently applied to various materials, may provide a relative dating technique in very large numbers.
When I compare various objects from ancient history tested by those metrics and observe their measurements vary by as much as around 2/3 their elapsed age, I have good justification to doubt veracity of the dating technique.
More in depth study in quantum mechanics and their mathematical basis, indicates older specimens might have ages calculated based upon exponentials of exponentials of other exponentials, allowing for very large absolute number errors. Something that might be thousands of years old might be calculated as billions of years old, without further statement of the assumptions made in the calculations.
Without a known gauge with independently verifiable age, the calculation techniques may have some relative value, but lack veritable acceptance as an absolute dating technique.
In the example provided, no mention is even made of hard water effects on radiocarbon dating, which could easily vary the calculated age by about a factor of 2-4.
Even less veritable is the presumptions at the end of the article attributing a motive for the person whose skull was found in a cave, for having entered the cave. Authors prone to such presumptive hypotheses, hardly manifest a discipline to respect indubitable veracity.
Funny thing, is that they might be able to have contributed significant findings in their search, had they simply remained dedicated to finding the truth, instead of reading their worldview into their observations.