Eventually the railroad arrived in the area and the residents eventually moved creating a the new town of Teague in 1906. Teague also has a 3300 foot long airport used primarily for recreational use. Teague is located at 31Â°37â²39â³N 96Â°17â²0â³W / 31.6275Â°N 96.283333Â°W / 31.6275; -96.283333 (31.627618, -96.283353).
At the heart of the Shroud controversy is the validity of the carbon dating performed on three samples snipped from the Shroud in April 1988. The samples were taken from the front foot area of the14-foot-long linen, on which the faint image is laid out in a head to head, dorsal and frontal view.
Two major dating methods applied to artifacts and fossils are stratagraphic dating (based upon the particular layer of rock of sediment in which the object is found) or radiomâ¦etric dating (which is based on the decay rates of certain radioactive isotopes).