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- Lab number
- Beta-140402
- 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
- 100 ± 50
- Context
- Feature 1, Block 2, visible on the surface as an amorphous 2 m sq charcoal stain from which high densities of artifacts and processed bone were eroding. The feature was completely deflated and meas. ca. 55 x 80 cm. Highly oxidized bedrockwas exposed at the base of the feature. Fill contained 65 pieces of debitage 1 charred globemallow seed and a fragment of charred processed edible tissue (succulent, fleshy fruit, berry). Charred and uncharred bone (n = 264), and pine and juniper charcoal was also present. Identifiable bone: cottontail, large mammals. The feature was closely assoc. with several projectile points and bifaces. Interpreted as an intensive faunal processing and cooking area.
- Comments
- Feature described as a food processing feature with lithic flakes and animal bones ranging from rabbit-sized to bison-sized