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- Lab number
- Beta-141528
- 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
- 1360 ± 60
- Stratigraphic component
- 265 cmbd
- Context
- Feature 18, Shelter 3, Stratum Q, 265 cmbd. A basin shaped pit located within Stratum III of Feature 14. Only partially excavated, but Feature 18 appeared to meas. 45 x 37+ cm, 6 cm deep. Disturbed by rodents. Fill was ash with oxidized loam 4 cm thick on the bottom. No artifacts. Charred salt bush and datura seeds, 3 charred maize kernels; juniper and pinyon charcoal. 5 calcined bone frags.Fairly intense heating is shown by the oxidation. Datura is a strong hallucinogen used by healers and shamans. Date is thought to be too old.
- Comments
- Feature is a basin-shaped pit 35 by 37cm and 6cm deep; associated with maize kernels; date suspected to be old wood