Guns, Germs, and Steel

For the last couple of weeks we have been reading this big book called Guns, Germs and Steels. These new few question are for chapter 5.

1. Explain to the best of your ability how radiocarbon dating works, and what some of the problems inherent with this type of testing are (pages 94-96)?


Radiocarbon dating is a method that uses the naturally occurring isotope carbon to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years.The technique of radiocarbon dating was discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues in 1949. The Radiocarbon dating method is, only useful for estimating the age of things that are thousands of years old, not millions or billions. Also, It does not work on rocks or thoroughly materialized fossils; it is only useful for preserved organic materials such as cloth, wood, and other non fossilized stuff.

2. What part of the world would you have wanted to live on if you were alive 1,000 years ago?

I would chose the Andes because i love Potatoes " I like potatoes=P" Llamas are cool, Ginnie pigs are cute, and I have a pig of a dog. Also, I'm like 1/10Th Inca.