what was true 5,000 years ago was still true 2,000 years ago and is still true today.
We still are excused from a murder conviction if we strike our slave but he lives a little while before dying? Lobsters are still an abomination?
Yes, that ^ goes in a different thread.
butfor most dating systems the half-life is too long to know if they are correct or not.
You don't know what a half life is, do you, Archaeologist? Is it necessary to drive a car for an hour down a straight highway to tell if it is going 65 mph? No? Neither is it necessary to hold a lump of carbon-14 for 5730 years to determine its half-life.
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons,
ca. 830 AD