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- Lab number
- I-9764
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Las Animas
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Measured Age
- 1285 ± 80
- Significance
- Pueblo
- Context
- feature 28, hearth in pithouse, Sopris phase. Feature 28 pithouse, located on a slope ca. 33 ft W of Mound B. No info on the precise provenience of the 14C sample.The pithouse mMeas. ca. 9 ft in dia., 1.9 ft deep. It has an elevated entrance ramp entering the structure from the S. Ramp meas. 8.5 ft in length, 2 ft wide. Both the structure and ramp were rather amorphous in form. Floor was burned, covered with ash, charcoal, and burned beam frags. No daub to indicate a jacal type structure. It had a central hearth, collared, meas. ca. 4.5 ft in dia. 10 ft deep (this really is what the note says about the measurement. Hearth walls were oxidized. Also had a collared storage bin excavated into the E wall. Ceramics indicate Initial Sopris phase (AD 1000-1100.
- Additional information
- radiometric