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hgaterms t1_j640j4p wrote

> Dating of the material around the axes showed them to be from approximately 1.2 million years ago.

But that just means the dirt is 1.2 million years old. These axes could have been tossed into a hole that had 1.2 million year old dirt in it, and the axes themselves could have been made only 20,000 years ago.

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onFilm t1_j644ioq wrote

Hey guys, let's take these 20,000 year old artifacts and throw them in this 1.2million year old dirt I found!

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tdgros t1_j649t5h wrote

it was only 1.180.000 years old at the time, it looked much younger

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boredguy3 t1_j64ddl3 wrote

That’s not how science works. Dirt isn’t carbon 14 accessible, one needs decaying matter. Such as, wood, plants etc. saying these fragments were “thrown into a 1.2 million year old hole” is on par with saying everyone of those scientists wants their career destroyed by publishing fake data. It doesn’t make sense

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