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- Lab number
- Beta-129313
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Mesa
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1730 ± 70
- Stratigraphic component
- 65 cm bmgs
- Context
- Feature 7, a slab lined pit found 65 cm bmgs, well behind the drip line, almost abutting the back wall. It meas. 45 cm in dia., 15 cm deep, lined on 3 sides and the base by sandstone slabs. The basal slab was a maximum of 31 cm in dia., ground on one surface. Fill was charcoal flecked sand. No oxidation noted on the slabs. Fill produced 33 pieces of debitage, 13 false tarragon seeds, 95 goosefoot seeds, 3 bugseeds, 6 grass seeds; all were charred. Charred pinyon, serviceberry, pinyon and juniper recovered. 86 bone fragments were recovered, 3 of which were cottontail, the remainder were from small mammals; all were charred except for 4 rodent elements. Feature 7 was probably constructed upon and slightly overlapping Feature 1. Feature 7 may have functioned for storage, but the fill may represent refuse. Feature 7 is assoc. with Component 2, Aspen tradition.