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Carbon-14 Activity during the past 5,000 Years

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VARIATIONS during the past 5,000 years of the concentration of carbon-14 in living material have been investigated with the aid of available radiocarbon dating measurements made with samples which have died at known times.

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CROWE, C. Carbon-14 Activity during the past 5,000 Years. Nature 182, 470–471 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182470a0

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