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Lab number
Beta-143183
Material dated
Sediment
Taxa dated
Organic Sediment
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
San Juan
Date uploaded
January 18, 2024
Updater
Wyoming Team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Normalized Age
1030 ± 60
Stratigraphic component
25 cm bmgs
Context
Feature 2, an amorphous charcoal stain, .6 x 1.18 m in dia., 18 cm deep. Found within and around a naturally occurring depression in the bedrock. Found 25 cm bmgs. Sand within the feature was oxidized with charcoal flecks. Three large metate frags. recovered from the feature; 2 basin-shaped, stacked on one another. The third, on the edge of the feature had traces of red ochre. One burned bone frag. and 1 piece of debitage, charred goosefoot, and other seeds; conifer charcoal, sagebrush and other species also present.
Comments
Feature is a probable hearth 60 by 116cm and 18cm thick; associated with lithics, ground stone, and burned bone, but no diagnostic artifacts

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