carbon dating

I recently saw at some CT web site that scientists had used 14C dating to determine the age of triceratops fossils at about 34,000 years. I've done a little carbon dating in university, and I understand that the upper limit age limit using this technique is about 50,000 years. I have a...

I am reading a book called Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs by Andrew Reynolds (Oxford UP, 2009). I came across a statement that I found puzzling. Reynolds says, "C14 dating in the Anglo-Saxon period is fraught with problems. The fifth and sixth centuries do not provide accurate dates, nor do...

"Archaeologists at the Tel Aviv University claim that camels were not domesticated in Israel during the time period mentioned in the Bible. Carbon dating on camel bones reveals that camels were not domesticated in Israel until the 9th century BC. "According to the biblical stories of Abraham...

I just came across this article on Facebook from December 30 in Science Recorder. Scientists discover secret of more precise carbon dating It's publicising a discovery that was announced in October which doesn't seem to have been mentioned in this subforum. (But I only searched thread titles...

I have a question about carbon dating. I know it revolves around the fact that carbon atoms decay at a certain fixed rate and we can date the age of rocks using that rate. My thought is... wouldn't we need to know how many carbon atoms are in the item in the first rate to know how many are...

Discussing the Shroud of Turin, I was pointed to this article and told that it showed the carbon dating was botched. I recall one claim that the pieces dated were from patches, and not the original cloth, and I read on skepdic.com that this was a highly flawed claim. Now I'm being told that...