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Lab number
DIC-1390
Material dated
Charcoal
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
Routt
Date uploaded
January 15, 2024
Updater
Wyoming team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Measured Age
1730 ± 225
Significance
Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récent
Context
hearth, feature 1. Charcoal from Feature 1, a hearth meas. 52 x 55 m in dia., 5 cm deep; filled with several large quartz conglomerate cobbles. Cobbles were heat fractured. No artifacts in fill. Very little charcoal. Cobbles were scattered around the hearth. Area around hearth thought to have been used for a variety of activities: grinding, scraping, initial lithic reduction, heat treatment of raw lithic materials, and final stges of tool manufacture.
Additional information
radiometric

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