What date can we assign the wooden artifact

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The half-life of 14C is 5730 years. We excavate a site and find a preserved piece of a wooden ceiling beam. If this has one quarter the amount of radioactive carbon we would expect in a currently living object, to about what date can we assign the wooden artifact?

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