Their results suggest that the carbon -14 method occasionally has a large margin of error, producing dates of as many as 3,500 years too young for material that is in fact at least 20, 000 years old.
似乎不是说 把20,000 岁 测成了3,500 岁....
有一道关于它的infer 题的答案 是
Some events previously believed to have occured around 16,500 years ago may have occurred around 20,000 years ago...