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Radiocarbon is fairly accurate, within its limitations. According to University of California-Santa Barbara, radiocarbon dating has a limit of 50,000 years (after this too little radiation remains). On the other end, radiocarbon dating is ineffective for recent fossils because too little radioactive elements have decayed.
