Question: How is ground up bone used for carbon dating?

How are bones carbon dated?

The Carbon 14, or radiocarbon dating method is one of the best-known methods of dating human fossils and has been around since the late 1940s. The Carbon 14 (14C) dating method is a radiometric dating method. A radiometric dating uses the known rate of decay of radioactive isotopes to date an object.

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