I'm just really curious about the different ways we can date findings, and the reliability of each method. How, for instance, we go about determining that the pinkie toe bone of a monkey found in Africa is approximately 3 million years old, or some such thing like that. I do not want anyone to be bashing the styles of dating, nor claiming that they are all 'inaccurate'. It is beyond widely accepted that the methods (especially like radiometric) used are, to a large degree, accurate. I'm wondering how accurate, and how reliable, not whether or not they are accurate or reliable.