Much of Genghis Khan's life remains a mystery, but Australian researchers think they have narrowed down where the Mongol conqueror spent the winter months.
But radiocarbon dates can be imprecise, giving a window of decades.Dr Fenner said to individually radiocarbon date an artefact could be 15 to 20 years off the mark, and the date "has to be calibrated against known changes to the atmospheric concentration of carbon", which could spread the window to between 50 or 75 years.
"It's not an exact science, but the overlap is such that it's very likely that it was first occupied during his lifetime and was abandoned either or within a couple of decades." "This paper provides another piece for a complex and developing puzzle and is a welcome contribution." "You really can never be certain of anything when you talk about the ancient past, whether it's historical or archaeological, but they've made a strong argument here that the majority of animals that died at this site died within a particular window of time."
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