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Lab number
GX-29010
Material dated
Charcoal
Taxa dated
Acorn, oak, pine
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
Middlesex, Dracut
Date uploaded
January 17, 2024
Updater
Wyoming Team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Normalized Age
7830 ± 130
Stratigraphic component
90 to 100 cmbs
Context
Feature 2, occupation level?; N5E12
Comments
Three loci: Locus 1 had a Neville point base and midsection, a bifurcate-base point, 2 groundstone adzes, 1 whetstone, 12 bifacial edge tools, 30 unifacial edge tools, 12 wedges, 21 utilized flakes, 30 cores, 1 hammerstone/core, 7 hammerstones, a bifacial drill, large quatnities of debitage, and Feature 2 (7830 BP) a pit house living floor (3 m. wide) with charcoal and charred acorn and hazelnut. Locus 2 had 4 bifacial edge tools, 6 unifacial tools, 10 wedges, 6 utilized flakes, 1 hammerstone, and chipping debris, 1 calcined turtle bone, quartz edge tools, flakes scatter, cores, 1 rhyolite core; Feature 1 - Calcined deer bone feature with over 1200 calcined deer bone fragments C14 dated to 2970 BP and 2780 BP; Feature 3 - (8110 BP) pit house living floor (3 m wide) containing charcoal, charred Chenopodium, Labiatae, Phytolacca, Rubus, acorn and hazelnut. Locus 3, 1 piece of quartz.

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