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- Lab number
- Beta-197185
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- La Plata
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1440 ± 40
- Context
- Locus 1, Feature 1 pit structure floor, the northernmost PH on the ridge top. The structure had burned down over a domestic assemblage and a decapitated human burial. Circular, orientated east-southeast. Part of the upper bench meas. 40 cm wide. Bench of the S side had evienly eroded away (the structure was not backfilled by the original excavator). Lower walls meas. 5.6 m NE-SW, and it is assumed that it was roughly circular. Structure was 1.5 m deep, carved out of the shale bedrck. Floor was leveled and plastered, but the wall plaster noted by Root was no longer present. The 2 postholes that were uncovered indicate that it had a 4-post roof support system. Because no break in the upper wals was identified, author suggests that entry was most likely by ladder. Five subfeatures in the E portion of the pit house: 2 postholes with wood remaining, a mass of rock and adobe, a ventilator tunnel, and the bench. (the plan map also shows a collapsed deflector/wing wall). Apparently, no artifacts on floor (except for a Zea mays cupule). Vent shaft contained cermics, FSTs, GS, and unworked fauna.
- Additional information
- AMS