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- Lab number
- Beta-141525
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- San Juan
- Date uploaded
- January 18, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming Team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 840 ± 60
- Stratigraphic component
- 248 cmbd
- Context
- Feature 12, Shelter 3, Stratum O, 248 cmbd. A small pit filled with FCR, located outside the shelter. It meas. 40 cm in dia., with steep sides; 21 cm deep. Fill was black charcoal stained sand and dense pockets of charcoal. 10 pieces of fire altered tabular sandstone slabs lay directly on top of the dense charcoal; that is the slabs were laid flat to line the feature above the layer of coals. No oxidation or artifacts. Charred plant material included sagebrush, greasewood, 5 charred goosefoot seeds. 7 calcined bone fragments also present. Feature 12 is interpreted as a roasting pit.
- Comments
- Feature is a basin-shaped pit 40cm in diameter and 21cm deep filled with FCR, associated with bone and wild seeds