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Lab number
Beta-129315
Material dated
Charcoal
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
Mesa
Date uploaded
January 15, 2024
Updater
Wyoming team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Normalized Age
1870 ± 60
Context
Feature 1, a hearth 72-75 cm bmgs, ca. 1.5 m inside the drip line. Meas. 34 x 50 cm 10 cm thick, basin shaped. Fill was dark sand with numerous chunks of charcoal, 4 FCR; no oxidation, but the base and sides appeared to be coated with carbonates. Fill contained carbonized juniper, pinyon, oak, cottonwood/aspen, serviceberry, numerous charred goosefoot seeds, a few charred grass seeds, one Indian ricegrass seed, 19 charred cactus spines, juniper seeds, 1 pinyon nut hull fragment, 75 burned small mammal bone frags. Artifacts: 32 flakes. A second C14 sample yielded a date of 1610 +/- 30 BP (B-099938). Feature is interpreted as a simple hearth, probably used to process faunal and floral foods. Assigned to Component 2.

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