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Radiocarbon Dating One method that scientists use to date ancient fossils and artifacts is called radiocarbon dating.

When these lifeforms die, they stop taking in new carbon.Plants fix atmospheric carbon during photosynthesis, so the level of C level for the calculation can either be estimated, or else directly compared with known year-by-year data from tree-ring data (dendrochronology) up to 10,000 years ago (using overlapping data from live and dead trees in a given area), or else from cave deposits (speleothems), back to about 45,000 years before the present.A calculation or (more accurately) a direct comparison of carbon-14 levels in a sample, with tree ring or cave-deposit carbon-14 levels of a known age, then gives the wood or animal sample age-since-formation.Carbon combines with other elements in complex ways to form the molecules that make up our bodies.Most carbon on Earth is not radioactive, but a very small percentage is.

However, scientists can look at the decay of other elements in these objects allowing them to date them up to 2.2 billion years.