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Carbon Dating can only be used on something that contains carbon. Therefore the stone tablet would have to have Carbon it it's structure (Carbonate) , or it would need to be covered in soot or ash.
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What is the tablets of stone in Egypt?
Stele
What people inscribed their first written law code onto twelve stone tablets?
what society inscribed their first written law code onto twelve stone tablets ?
What were myths written on back in ancient Greece?
Stone tablets
What was carved on the stone tablets god gave moses?
the stone tablet given to moses by GOD were the ten commandments
How do you authenticate arrowheads?
Best thing, if they seem old, try to get them carbon dated. Also look at the desing online, see what it comes up with. Carbon dating will not give you any information about when an arrow head was made. It will tell you the age of the stone its made of.
The age of dead sea scrolls was found by carbon dating Could this technique have worked if they were carved in stone tablets explain?
No. Carbon dating tells how long ago something died (more specifically, when it stopped absorbing carbon). Things that were never alive or are more than ~70,000 years old have to be dated by analyzing for other isotopes or isoptopic ratios. I started to explain carbon dating in more detail, but I realized I was going to have to write a short novel to explain it in any more detail and do a good job. So, unless something was written on a stone tablet by grinding a dead bird into the tablet, you could not carbon date text carved on stone. Similarly, carbon dating an old, written text tells you when the plant/animal that was used for a writing surface died. It does not tell you when the text was written (but I believe that, generally, the ages are fairly close).
What is the tablets of stone in Egypt?
Stele
What were the commandments written on?
Stone tablets
Can archaeologists estimate the age of any ancient artifact with carbon dating?
No, only artifacts that were once part of living things can be carbon dated. Thus a piece of carved ivory can be carbon dated, but a stone arrowhead cannot.
What is the stone that Moses carry's?
Moses carries stone tablets which contain the Ten Commandments from God. The number of tablets varies with each version of the story, but it is usually only one or two tablets.
What were the Ten Commandments written on?
Tablets of stone.
What was stone seal written on?
clay tablets
What did scribes used writing to?
stone tablets
Who found the tablets of stone that had the Ten Commandments on them?
Moses
How were stone tablets used as a means of communication?
to text
What did scribes use to write cuneiform?
Scribes used a reed stylus called a "stylus" to write cuneiform on clay tablets. The stylus was made of a cut reed with a triangular tip that was pressed into the clay to create wedge-shaped characters. The resulting impressions were then baked to preserve the writing.
Could carbon-14 be used to date a stone arrowhead found at an ancient burial site?
A:Carbon-14 dating could not be used directly from the arrowhead itself. However, the bones associated with the arrowhead could be dated by this method, if they are sufficiently recent for this method. If the arrowhead is properly associated with the bones, you would then know its age.
