Radiocarbon dating is a way of determining the age of organic remains, within certain perameters. However, this testing technique has its limitations.

The learning of the advanced peoples of this region, it was thought, gradually moved west into Europe. But in the last few decades these theories have been overturned, thanks to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Willard F. Libby and a substance knows as carbon 14. Carbon 14 is a radioactive substance that exists in minute quantities..Pre Historic Puzzles: Rocking the Cradle of Civilization.