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Lab number
Beta-202515
Material dated
Seeds
Taxa dated
Zea mays
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
La Plata
Date uploaded
January 15, 2024
Updater
Wyoming team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Normalized Age
1230 ± 40
δ13C (per mil)
-10.1
Context
Feature 1 hearth. One of 2 dates from the hearth. Hearth in F-1 pithouse, Locus. Large, subrectangular structure, 6.5 x 6.1 m in dia, 2.11 m deep. Household assemblage likely left in place at abandonment. Oriented S. Unprepared floor, plastered walls, remodeled at one time. Roof fall defined by a black organic lens that descendedover the bench to within 30 cm of the floor. Roof fall rich in artifacts. Vent shaft extended SSW. Four-post roof support system (2 located, set in from the wall). Filled with washed-in lenses, suggesting posts were removed for use elsewhere. 15 subfeatures. Zea mays found in heath. Part of a bench present along the E edge of the structure (mostly washed into structure). Black bear skull found on floor; also GS, awls, deer long bone rags, grayware vessels, ornaments, a ceramic pipe. Interpreted as purposefully burned at abandonment, but main posts salvaged. Likely that it is contemporaneous with surface rooms at this locus.
Additional information
AMS

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