RAS is not an institute, but contains many institutes. In this case the institute in question is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. I have no doubt that the authors are OK with their subject (applied mathematics), but inter-disciplinary research is probably not their strongest quality.
Of course the matter is not lack of trust in carbon dating (as suggested above), but just little attention to details. In other words, this is a mistake (probably a typo) that went unnoticed past nine auhtors and don't-know-how-many peer reviewers. Which is, of course, lamentable, and does not add to their scientific reputation. And, together with insufficient attention to contemporary sources and inability to comprehend the state-of-the-art, this is (unfortunately!) too often a vivid marker of a poor research. This does not mean that there might not be some interesting points or raw data in the paper - but, as I said above, I have not read it in full yet.
As it turned out upon closer examination, the "pre-print" is not a real pre-print status in this case. In this case, this means that the paper has been published in the peer-reviewed ( : sigh : ) journal entitled You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
As of complaints, I'm 10+ years out of academia, with no desire to return back, so I have no wish to complain on inaccuracies or enter into any polemics. I do my own business, and let academics do theirs.
Of course the matter is not lack of trust in carbon dating (as suggested above), but just little attention to details. In other words, this is a mistake (probably a typo) that went unnoticed past nine auhtors and don't-know-how-many peer reviewers. Which is, of course, lamentable, and does not add to their scientific reputation. And, together with insufficient attention to contemporary sources and inability to comprehend the state-of-the-art, this is (unfortunately!) too often a vivid marker of a poor research. This does not mean that there might not be some interesting points or raw data in the paper - but, as I said above, I have not read it in full yet.
As it turned out upon closer examination, the "pre-print" is not a real pre-print status in this case. In this case, this means that the paper has been published in the peer-reviewed ( : sigh : ) journal entitled You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
As of complaints, I'm 10+ years out of academia, with no desire to return back, so I have no wish to complain on inaccuracies or enter into any polemics. I do my own business, and let academics do theirs.