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By taking a drilling a small hole in the object (as seen to the LEFT), we were able to gather a sample to be used for testing. We encountered what seemed to look like glue with the first hole, so we tried another area of the bottom portion.

As part of the beginning process, the sample is compared to other standards of wood of a similar time span and immersed in HCl and then heated up to a temperature just right for separating oils and other factors from the sample.

The Result

The object was dated to 3910 years before present. According to conventional carbon dating techniques, that would mean one would subtract 1950 from that and the object date is then circa 1960 bc.