• Question: what's the oldest thing you have identified and how old was it?

    Asked by anon-227011 to Thibaut "Tibo" on 11 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Thibaut Deviese

      Thibaut Deviese answered on 11 Nov 2019:


      Hi Daisy! The oldest thing I identified was a piece of bone from a human that lived in a cave more than 50000 years ago. I do not know exactly how old he is because of the limits of the radiocarbon dating method but I know he is at least 50000 years old!

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