In 2002, a wooden beam from the Wupatki Indian ruin in Arizona was found to contain 227 mg of carbon-14. The same mass of wood from a tree cut in 2002 contained 264 mg of carbon-14. When was the beam from Wupatki cut if the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years?

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