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Lab number
Beta-226299
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
1520 ± 40
Context
Excavation Unit within Feature 4 Surface Room, Locus 1 Surface Room, 6.0 x 2.7 m. Walls of ponderosa pine posts set into the ground and stabilied with slabs and other stones. Walls covered with muc/adobe. Large amts of bright orange burned adobe removed from fill of original test trench, XU 5. Floor of unprepared earth. Artifacts mixed with burned adobe and burned beam frags., some sent for dendro. Walls lined, partially, with rocks; some missing. Upper fill contained a reconstructible grayware jar, plus other sherds including Rosa/Piedra B/W. Other reconstructible or partially reconstructible bowls and jars found in lower fill. A charred Zea mays cupule found on/near floor near an awl. Interpreted as a storage room, based on presence of large number of jars. The quantity of FSTs also suggests use for a variety of processing activities.
Additional information
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