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Lab number
Beta-75863
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
2140 ± 40
δ13C (per mil)
-26.0
Context
This date was referenced in Lister 1997 as cal 181 BC, converted by Smiley in accord with an article in Radiocarbon by Stuiver and Pearson, "High-precision Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale." Working backwards from their calibration tables, 181 BC is approximately 2140 BP. The +/-40 standard error is an estimate based on comparable precision from Beta Analytic during the 1980s. Delta 13C is unknown.

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