Dating Fossils Again

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 6 a.m.

It's time to look at fossil dating again! \xa0The last episode mentioned two dating methods used to estimate how old the Homo Naledi bones found the Rising Star cave system might be.\xa0To do so, researchers used a Uranium-thorium method as well as electron spin resonance, or \u201cESR\u201d.\xa0 Let's take a brief look at what each of these entail.\xa0

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Written, Produced, & Narrated by: Rick Coste