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Lab number
Beta-263511
Field number
803
Material dated
Seeds
Taxa dated
Charred Corylus spp. Shell
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
Colchester, Chittenden County
Date uploaded
January 18, 2024
Updater
Wyoming Team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Measured Age
390 ± 40
Normalized Age
310 ± 40
δ13C (per mil)
-29.7
Stratigraphic component
Level 23
Context
Feature 1; N195 E218, Level 23
Additional information
AMS
Comments
Likely the remains of a hearth. 3 quartzite flakes, 12.5 L of fill were subjected to floatation and produced charred blueberry and bramble seeds, hazelnut shell, maple, beech, pine, and pitch pine wood, hemlock and white pine needles. Blueberries and hazelnuts ripen in August, suggesting late summer occupation of the site. The radiocarbon dating of the charred hazelnut shell to the late Woodland-early Contact Period is not consistent with the suspected dating for the diagnostic Genesee projectile point (Terminal Archaic) recovered from nearby unit N195 E216. The authors suggest that multiple occupations of this site occurred; AMS date

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