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Is it impossible that an early western settler brought these artifacts when they were already old?

Like me carrying a roman coin and loosing it in today Siberia for example?

European settlers reached Alaska only in 1741, so the organic material around the beads - which is what was used for carbon dating - would have had to survive wear and tear for centuries. Not very likely.

>Venetian glass trade beads in radiocarbon-dated contexts that predate Columbus's discovery of the Western Hemisphere.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

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