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- Lab number
- Beta-144127
- Material dated
- Wood
- Taxa dated
- charred twig
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Montezuma
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 2070 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Context
- Charred twigs from roof fall of Structure 1. Extant part of structure meas. 3.6 x 3.4 m, 12 cm deep. Extant floor area is 9.2 sq m. Structure was roughly circular, basin shaped floor, and a superstructure of brush nd mud that had burned and collapsed. Upper part of the basin was removed by plowing. It may have been as much as 35 cm deep near the center and 5 m in dia. (18 sq m) when originally dug into the prehistoric ground surface. A hearth was immediately SW of the floor center. A small number of flakes and burned sandstone found in on floor, burned sandstone also in the hearth. Superstructure appears to have been a framework of poles overlaid with brush then covered with mud. Poles were probably shallowly seated along the perimeter, but no postholes found. Burned twigs and daub were in direct contact with the floor; thus, it probably burned and collapsed shortly after abandoment. Hearth was probably 111 x 60 cm, 5-14 cm deep, with 3 small basins; central basin was oxidized. Charred goosefoot seeds, calcined bone frags, and flakes from hearth fill.