December 18, 2020 11:36AM
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This is very true, and people will use (and reuse) whatever material they find useful at the time. From memory there are a few "Modern" (I want to say Georgian but could even be medieval, I cant recall) buildings in Dublin city that have been found (dendrochronolgically) to have 5000 year old bog oak timbers used in their construction. Similarly, there are some "peasant houses" which were constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries that have 5000 year old bog wood used in construction (since it was free to scavenge from the local bogs)
So imagine that some individual blindly dated these timbers (either by radiocarbon or dendrochronology), they could therefore conclude that these structures were built thousands of years before they were actually built. Indeed, one could do so in many historical buildings where the wood was obtained from parts of trees that started growing many hundreds of years prior to the construction of the building.
Jonny
The path to good scholarship is paved with imagined patterns. - David M Raup
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