Assertion: radiocarbon dating | /r/HasProperty | accurate
Facets:
value: to about 50,000 years
type: TEMPORAL
value: quite
type: DEGREE
value: within the timeframe
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Carbon dating is thus accurate within the timeframe set by other archaeological dating techniques.
text: Radiocarbon dating is especially good for determining the age of sites occupied within the last 26,000 years or so (but has the potential for sites over 50,000), can be used on carbon-based materials (organic or inorganic), and can be accurate to within ±30-50 years.
text: The result is that carbon dating is accurate for only a few thousand years.
text: Carbon dating is only accurate back a few thousand years.
text: Radiocarbon dating is only accurate to about 50,000 years.
text: Radiocarbon dating is quite accurate--and getting more accurate with new techniques--when it is applied to suitable materials.