Little Johnnie from down the street from your house brings an object that looks like a bone, and Johnnie says "look, I found a dinosaur bone." Which of the following would not be useful in evaluating Johnnie's claim?
A) Extract charcoal from the object and use carbon-14 dating
B) Evaluate the object for fine textures indicative of bone material or replaced bone material.
C) Examine the object for hardness to determine if the sample is permineralized.
D) Ask if the object was found embedded in rock.
A
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a) relocation to a rural sharecropping area b) relocation to coastal cities c) migration from a rural to urban area within the state d) movement out of inner-cities e) relocation to northern cities
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____________________. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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