Radiocarbon Dating/Examples/Lascaux Caves/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Lascaux Caves
The Lascaux caves were discovered on $12$ September $1940$.
The walls of the caves were found to be covered in artwork from thousands of years ago.
Within the cave were found the remains of a fire.
By using radiocarbon dating on the charcoal remains of that fire, it was possible to obtain an approximate date of when the caves were occupied.
Sources
- 1963: Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard: Ordinary Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Basic Concepts: Lesson $1$: How Differential Equations Originate