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- Lab number
- Beta-3281
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Gunnison
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Measured Age
- 2950 ± 90
- Context
- Charcoal from Feature 1. (NOTE that there are 2 Feature 1s). Part of a complex of features (Feature 1 thru 4, 6, 7, and 15), probably all hearths, areas of intense burning, and dark circular charcoal stains exposed in 2 contiguous excavation blocks, X1 and X17. Feature 1 first appeared as a crescent-shaped alignment of FCR within a large, irregularly-shaped matrix of red and black mottled sediments. Max. plan view of just over 1 m. The E half was vertically profiled and the feature was found to contain additionl FCR, substantial quantity of debitage, core frags, and a small quantity of bone frags. No clear hearth profile could be discerned. Jones, 1986a reports the date as 3039 +/- 90. This is the author's conversion from the Libby half life to the Cambridge half life. For the sake of consistency within the database, the reader should use the Libby half life, as have I.