Abstract
Some aspects of the harmonization of radiocarbon age data with biblical time constraints have been reviewed in a recent issue of Origins (Brown 1990). In that treatment a mathematical relationship is derived for converting carbon-14 (C-14) dates into real-time ages on a basis that incorporates fully established age data from secular history together with the chronological constraints in the eleventh chapter of Genesis. According to this relationship, a musk ox frozen in Alaskan muck (Stuckenrath and Mielke 1970) had a reasonable life span in the vicinity of fifty years, and perished about 4900 years ago. A one-to-one representation of real time by radiocarbon ages indicates an unreasonable life span in the range between 5000 and 9000 years and death about 17,000 years ago.