Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones

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• 4ndrewl 59 minutes ago
  I thought this was a well known effect - it's certainly filtered down to some paperback popsci archaeology books I've read in the past few years.
• pvaldes 12 hours ago
  Yep. I suspected that that arctic shark couldn't be so old.
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  • gus_massa 5 hours ago
    I think the age is calculated counting the "rings" in ... [looking at google] ... the vertebrae.