In the Sunday paper, there was mention of a 32,000-year-old work of art found in a cave. Well, actually several small objects carved out of ivory--a horse head and some of other figure or figures, can't remember exactly right now.

Anyway:

Here's a problem. Carbon-dating dated the figures at approximately 32,000 years of age. But couldn't that dating be quite inaccurate here? After all, the ivory came from some elephant, I suppose, that could be dated back 32,000 years; however, couldn't a group of artists have found that very old ivory and carved the figures much, much later?

Just asking...