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Nature 434, 697 (7 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/434697c; Published online 6 April 2005

Don't mix radiocarbon and calendar years

Chris Tyler-Smith1, Matthew E. Hurles1 & Mark A. Jobling2

  1. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
  2. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

Your News Feature "Skeleton keys" (Nature 433, 454–456; 2005) contains two statements that, together, are misleading. First, it is stated that "Clovis people had made it to the southwestern United States by 11,500 years ago", and second, that Kennewick man is "a 9,000-year-old human skeleton".

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