Debating scientific dating

The Thera (or Santorini) volcanic eruption in the southern Aegean is the largest known of the past 12,000 years (Johnston et al. For two hours, the youngsters have met with about 100 scientists, sharing one-to-one informal discussions.Every 7 minutes, a gong would ring and the youngsters would start a new conversation with another researcher.Instead of living 18,000 years ago, as they originally reported, the hobbit lived between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago—some 10,000 years before makes it “impossible to argue that it is a pathologically-dwarfed modern human,” says Russell Ciochon, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City who was not involved in the study.“In my opinion, this paper drives the final nail in the coffin” of that hypothesis.For object over 4,000 years old the method becomes very unreliable for the following reason: Objects older then 4,000 years run into a problem in that there are few if any known artifacts to be used as the standard.