Carbon Dating. In 1970, Amos Flora of Flora,Indiana, discovered teeth and jawbones

Chapter 5, Problem 9

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Carbon Dating. In 1970, Amos Flora of Flora,Indiana, discovered teeth and jawbones whiledredging a creek. Scientists discovered that thebones were from a mastodon and that they hadlost 77.2% of their carbon-14. How old were thebones at the time that they were discovered?(Sources: Farm Yields Bones Thousands ofYears Old, by Dan McFeely, Indianapolis Star,October 20, 2008; Field Museum of Chicago,Bill Turnbull, anthropologist)

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