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Radiometric Dating Techniques Available to Anthropologists

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Radiometric dating techniques available to anthropologists


A) work only for nonhuman primates, because genus Homo had culture.
B) have caused a re-evaluation of the fossil record since their 1991 development.
C) can only be used to date inorganic materials that are more than 1 million years old.
D) do not work well for hominin fossils, because such fossils are too young for the effective range of the techniques.
E) establish a probable date for fossils by calculating radioactive decay in the specimen found or the rocks surrounding it.

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