Any charcoal or wood sample that is carbon dated will have an apparent age, which may result in errors of up to hundreds of years unless short-lived tree species or twigs are selected for radiocarbon dating.

Are lumber prices expected to drop?

The price of lumber may be crashing—but were still far above pre-pandemic levels. The cash price is still up 211% from spring 2020. The consensus among industry insiders Fortune has interviewed over the past few weeks is that prices could drop to $600 per thousand board feet before the end of the year.