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Overheard a specialist at a dig site say they've been faking carbon dating results for grants
Heard this archaeologist at a bar near the Mesa Verde site claim their team padded dates by 500 years on three separate digs last year just to keep funding rolling, and now I'm wondering how many other projects do the same thing without getting caught.
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knight.diana6d ago
Three separate digs in just one year? That's a lot of sites to mess with at once, and Mesa Verde is super well known too. It makes me wonder if the fudging started small and just grew bigger over time since nobody caught them the first time. If they're padding by 500 years, that could completely change how we understand the timeline of that whole region. I really hope this isn't as common as it sounds, because then we can't trust anything from those old reports.
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