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radiocarbon is mostly just guess and most of the headlines are just there for clicks. radiocarbon dating is shows a range like 2000 to 50000 years. headlines takes 50K. radiocarbon date is also acknowledged to be the age of the material, not the date of the manufacture of an item. if item is a rock, mostly they don't know when the art is manufactured.

probably they asked how old is the art and somebody said "it could bew oldest ever found" hence the headline.




This is exactly what everyone must keep in mind when reading any pop-science article ever.




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