Posted on July 21, by The Physicist Physicist: When things die they stop getting new carbon and the carbon they have is free to radioactively decay without getting replaced. Carbon has a half-life of about 5, years, so if you find a body with half the carbon of a living body, then that somebody would have been pretty impressed by bronze. Of course none of that helps when it comes to pottery and tools except wooden tools.

The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about billion years (plus or minus about 1%). This value is derived from several.

Feedback The project itself was far from extraordinary. Workers near the Eastern German city of Leipzig were digging a ditch for a new gas line. But what they discovered was far from routine. A backhoe unearthed a 7, year-old, Stone Age garbage pit — and it was filled with refuse from some of the first farmers on the European continent. Moreover, upon rushing to the site, archeologists discovered an 8. The legs, abdomen and head were missing, but, according to the lucky archeologists, the figure still had its most important features intact: Since its discovery on August 19, , the partially intact “Adonis from Chernitz” — as it has been dubbed — has been creating quite a stir at the state office of archeology in Dresden.

Sculptors have carefully recreated the curve of the figure’s buttocks and other anatomical minutiae are also clearly visible.