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United States / CO / Mesa County / 5ME6144 / Beta-219512
- Lab number
- Beta-219512
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Mesa
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 150 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.2
- Context
- Feature 1, a large ovate grass-lined basin located in the central portion of the excavation block in proximity to the back wall. Meas. 137 x 74 cm; 16 cm deep. Bundles of vegetation that lined the basin were composed of Indian ricegrass, which is abundant in the immed. area of the shelter. A thin layer of charcoal was found beneath the matting, resting on bedrock. Biface frag., core, flakes found in the feature fill. TRC (I think) found 152 flakes and 6 bone frags. Although not mentioned, this could be a bed of some sort.