Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?

ninalanyon · 2025-11-17T11:13:05 1763377985

I can think of several plausible reasons:

- it costs money and no one wants to pay,

- the mystery is more interesting or amusing than the resolution of the mystery,

- carbon dating is unreliable for dates following the industrial revolution because the burning of coal and oil ejected vast quantities of depleted carbon into the atmosphere.