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I find thermo-luminiscence dating interesting too, from an antroprocentric point of view.
Imagine, you find human relics but can't use radio carbon dating, because it just tells you: yes it is older than 60k years but I won't tell you how much older, because we ran out of ¹⁴C a while ago. And then someone comes along and says: Hey let's heat those rocks we found close to the ancient fire place and measure the energy they emit instead. :D
That thermo-luminiscence video looks like one of the most AI produced things I've seen, why not link the wiki like you did for radio carbon dating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoluminescence_dating
Definitely TTS, maybe AI text source. Google came up with lengthy texts or elsevier-links. The 3min video didn't feel too bad to provide the gist of it in 3minutes. I didn't think of wiki.
Thanks for the link.