Most people have heard of carbon dating, a process that measures the amount of radioactive carbon-14 present in an object. It can date objects to about 50,000 years ago, so it is good for dating events in archaeology and the last part of the Ice Age. For older materials, geologists must use other radioactive elements such as rubidium, potassium, lead or uranium.
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