The limitations are that it only dates the ages of rocks.
The main limitation of using uranium 238 for dating objects is that it has a very long half-life (4.5 billion years), which makes it unsuitable for dating more recent objects. Additionally, there can be challenges in accurately measuring the ratios of uranium and its decay products in the sample, which can affect the reliability of the age determination.
Archeologists determine how old an object is, by using Carbon Dating.
It is applicable to dating geological samples old from 104 to 2.106 years.
radiometric
Can be used in living or were living things and large things.
Radiometric dating. Uses the property of elements decaying into other elements.
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Public domain materials have no limitations.
Objects older than 60,000 years cannot be dated using carbon-14 dating due to the limitation of the half-life of carbon-14. Therefore, a fossil from the Precambrian era, which is over 500 million years old, could not be dated using carbon-14 dating.
You can tell if two objects have the same relative age by comparing their positions within the same rock layer or sedimentary sequence. Objects found in the same layer are typically considered to be of the same relative age.
Through Radiocarbon dating, the age of an object can be determined by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. This method was invented by Willard Libby in the late 1940s.