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- Lab number
- Beta-117121
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Montrose
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 330 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Context
- Feature 12, a deep hearth in Block 1, Component 4; meas. 47 x 26 cm, 30 cm deep with steep asymmetrical sides. Four strata were in the fill; some with large chunks of charcoal, or ashy loam sometimes with charcoal. No oxidation noted. Fill contained 14 small pieces of FCR weighing 0.3 kg., charred pinyon and juniper, 67 unidentified deer-sized mammal bone frags. (49 burned), 11 unknown bone frags. (8 burned), single burned bones from a cottontail, mule deer, and rbbit-sized mammal. Nine pieces of debitage. Interpreted as a cooking hearth, and the substantial quantities of burned bone near by, plus 2 metate fragments are thought to be linked to Feature 12.