Archaeologists used pieces of burned wood, or charcoal, found at the site to date prehistoric paintings and drawings on walls

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Archaeologists used pieces of burned wood, or charcoal, found at the site to date prehistoric paintings and drawings on walls and ceilings of a cave in Lascaux, France. Use the information in Example 3 of Section 3.1 to determine the appropriate age of a piece of burned wood, if it was found that 83.5% of the C-14 found in living trees of the same type had decayed. (Round your answer to the nearest hundred years.)

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