radioactive carbon dating

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At his request, University of Michigan scientists had put the tusk fragments through their new radioactive carbon dating apparatus.

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The radioactive carbon dating system, for which Dr. Willard Libby won a Nobel Prize in 1960, reaches back for only 50,000 to 60,000 years.

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