The 12,000-Year-Old Girl Found Deep Inside A Flooded Cave — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
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The Science Of Putting An Age On The Past
The radiocarbon date that placed Naia’s death at approximately 12,000 to 13,000 years before the present was not a simple measurement.
Getting a reliable date from bones recovered from a flooded cave environment required addressing the same kinds of methodological concerns that any ancient dating project involves, and several that were specific to the underwater context.
Radiocarbon dating works by measuring the ratio of radioactive carbon-14 to stable carbon-12 in organic material.
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