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Article: KENNEWICK MAN SAMPLES TAKEN TO DETERMINE AGE MASS SPECTROMETRY IS BELIEVED MORE ACCURATE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 9, 1999
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Two tiny samples have been taken from the collection of bones known as Kennewick Man - material that will be used for radiocarbon dating to determine his age.
Initial tests run three years ago indicated the bones were more than 9,000 years old.
Yesterday, researchers extracted two 10-gram samples, about one-third of an ounce each, from the bones, which are at the Burke Museum in Seattle.
The samples will be hand-carried to laboratories in Miami, Fla., Tucson, Ariz., and Riverside, Calif., for accelerator mass spectrometry testing.
Kennewick Man is believed to be one of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America.
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