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Lab number
PITT-639
Material dated
Charcoal
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
Emery
Date uploaded
January 18, 2024
Updater
Wyoming Team
Date updated
December 31, 2020
Measured Age
1600 ± 65
Context
Feature 7, hearth, Shelter B, Stratum 10, 0-10 cm; Component 2. One of 2 dates from the feature (see PITT-653). Located inside the dripline in Shelter B. Unprepared, irregularly shaped; N and E edges are undefined. Fill consisted of sand, ash, charcoal, fire-reddened sandstone, FC basalt. Excavators interpret feature as remnants of a single burning episode. Fill contined 4 flakes, a metate frag. Artemesia pollen from a pollen wash of he metate; fill also contained charred Chenopodium seeds, juniper and pinyon wood; 1 cottontail frag., 6 indeterminate bone frags (3 calcined).
Additional information
radiometric
Comments
Amorphous pit filled with charcoal; no diagnostic artifacts

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