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- Lab number
- Beta-288582
- Material dated
- bone
- Type of date
- archaeological
- Submitter
- Jeff Rasic, NPS
- Uploader
- A. Martindale
- Date uploaded
- March 23, 2015
- Normalized Age
- 100 ± 40
- Context
- Test Pit 1, Feature C, Level 4&5, 58-63cmbd
- Additional information
- (bone collagen): collagen extraction: with alkali
- Comments
- Chris Houlette field notes 2010: Sample is bone from "...one of the features originally identified as a cache pit (Kunz map feature C). Approximately 60cm below a level line set by CC (see CC notes and profile) we discovered a heavy charcoal layer overlain by a layer of birch bark, all of which overlay a gravelly soil. Mixed within a dark organic soil matrix above the charcoal a long bone fragment and several tightly rolled strips of birch bark (see BETA-288583) were recovered. It appeared that the pit was dug out, lined with flattened birch bark and possibly used for smoking or storing cooked meat?" This returned date is reliable based on the exceptional state of the sample preservation, along with a returned date contemporaneous with BETA-7550 from the cache pit feature 10m east. 15N/14N = + 1.6 o/oo