# About 2,000 years ago, late in the Pecos River style

> Still possible: The mural was painted about 2,000 radiocarbon years ago, late in the Pecos River style, as the four paint dates of 1460 to 2420 BP…

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# About 2,000 years ago, late in the Pecos River style

The mural was painted about 2,000 radiocarbon years ago, late in the Pecos River style, as the four paint dates of 1460 to 2420 BP indicate.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- New samples dated under the current protocol fall between about 2,500 and 1,500 radiocarbon years BP.
- Oxalate layers under the paint are older, and over it younger, than that range.

## What would rule it out

- Paint dated under the current protocol, with clean controls, is consistently older than 3,000 radiocarbon years BP.

## Evidence 2 for · 2 against

[Four early paint dates from the mural, 1460 to 2420 radiocarbon years BP](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRRW74XXZ/four-early-paint-dates-from-the-mural-1460-to-2420)

Suggestive

FOR

[The style was still being painted about 2,000 years ago](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRSD34HE7/the-style-was-still-being-painted-about-2-000-years-ago)

Supported

FOR

[Every legacy Lower Pecos paint date is judged problematic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRSXD4ZBT/every-legacy-lower-pecos-paint-date-is-judged-problematic)

Supported

AGAINST

[The four dates spread over about 960 radiocarbon years for a single painting](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRTEMA4WC/the-four-dates-spread-over-about-960-radiocarbon-years-for-a)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[When was the White Shaman mural painted?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPKVJK0QF/when-was-the-white-shaman-mural-painted)

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