Meacham, William on Radiocarbon Dating: Shroud of Turin Terms

Archeologist William Meacham on Radiocarbon (Carbon 14) Dating

No competent archeologist would trust a single date or a series of dates on just one point to define an important historical reality... No radiocarbon scientist can state with certainty that he has removed all the contamination or that a series of dates produced for a specimen are beyond any doubt its effective calendar age. The public and many non-specialist academies seem effectively to share the erroneous concept that carbon-14 dates are absolute ... The dates that have revealed themselves to be useless are ... numerous, either as a result of contamination or from other causes ...

	What is the Shroud of Turin? The Shroud Described.
	How the images might have formed. Images on the Shroud of Turin.
	Hints from Edessa, 544 AD. Early Shroud of Turin History.
	How a medieval artisan caused Carbon 14 Dating Errors.
	Startling, Mysterious, Unexplained. The 3D Encoding of the Shroud.
	The Variegated Cloth. Fooled by the Shroud's Background Noise.
	The Art Connection. Christ Pantocrator and the Shroud of Turin.
	Was the Shroud of Turin Described? Voices from the Past
	Medical Perspective: Forensic Pathology of the Images
	The Second Face: From the Back of the Cloth
	Some say . . . Painted, Leonardo da Vinci, Jacques deMolay, Coins, etc.