How Carbon-14 Dating Works
Stuff You Should Know26 Marras 2019

How Carbon-14 Dating Works

Some of the carbon dioxide in your body is radioactive! Don’t worry, it won’t harm you (not sure why we used an exclamation point there). Instead, it might someday be detected by future archaeologists to determine how long ago you walked the Earth.

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