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- Lab number
- Beta-128517
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Montezuma
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 2060 ± 60
- Context
- Structure 1, a shallow basin shaped structure, meas. 5.25 x 4. 75 m in dia., 28 cm deep, floor area of 20.3 sq m. Fill was roof fall material, including small pieces of charcoal and oxidized sandy loam. An informal, but well used hearth was near the center. Structure floor sloped fairly evenly to the center of the structure (Feature 1) and was use-packed. The hearth meas. 85 x 56 cm, 6 cm deep; sides heavily oxidized. However, roof fall material was in the fill (probably cleaned out prior to the structure's burning). Hearth fill contained pinyon nedle frags., goosefoot seeds, sagebrush seeds, tansy mustard seeds. Archaeomag. date inticated firing prior to AD 600. Superstructure was probably wood, consisting of a series of juniper poles set just inside the edge of the basin, with butt ends jammed 4-5 cm into the ground, poles angled toward the center. Postulated that smalled branches were then placed over these, followed by a layer of loam. It appears to have burned shortly after abandonment. Collapsed roof material, 5-20 cm thick, lay on the floor, with numerous burned twigs present. 8 artifacts found in stratum directly above the roof fall (1 drill make on a S/N dart, 7 flakes). Artifacts within the roof fall may include some from the floor. These, plus floor contact artifacts include:18 FSTs, 4 ground stone pieces, 2 bone frags.