researchers can use that decay as a kind of clock that allows them to peer into the past and determine absolute dates for everything from wood to food, pollen, poop, and even dead animals and humans.
Why do historians use radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis on human bones? to identify the specimen and determine its age to preserve and protect the bones from decay to create a replica of the bones to store in a museum
The goal was to defeat the rebellion by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi river. This would cut off and isolate the south from the outside world.
