A person might be exploring and also investing the journey with meaning that archaeology cannot recover.

The categories that seem distinct in a scholarly discussion may not have been experienced as distinct by the ancient man himself.

How Old Was He, Really

The age of the Hourglass Cave man is one of the most important facts in his story, and it requires some care to state accurately.

Radiocarbon dating — the standard method for dating organic material up to roughly 50,000 years old — does not directly produce calendar years.

It produces radiocarbon years: an estimate of the sample’s age based on the decay of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon that living organisms incorporate from the atmosphere and that begins to decay at a known rate after death.