Not entirely sure if this falls under the Biology or Chemistry tag but heigh ho!
I am a Viking Reenactor and our group is very education focused and as part of my stall on Viking Funerals I talk about how scientists can test bodies to find out where they’re from and what their diets were like but I don’t actually know “how” this works…
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For carbon dating they use radiation. Us living things have a special form of carbon (the element) know as carbon-14 it will decay over time. By measuring how much of the carbon-14 there is and how much of the normal carbon (carbon-12) there is we can find how long ago it was alive.
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