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- Lab number
- Beta-65657
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Taxa dated
- Picea needles
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Boulder
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1875 ± 55
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.9
- Context
- Charred Picea needles, Feature 4. A shallow basin hearth and pile of hearth-cleanout material east of the mine. Was excavated in 1993. Situated in the bed of a trail. Meas 26 x 45 cm in dia., 7 cm deep. Was likely larger and deeper originally. A 1-cm thick layer of charcoal blanketed its floor SW side. No FCR present. Oxidized on the the center of the floor of the hearth. Waste flakes (n = 217) and bone scrap(n = 64, all calcined) were abundant in the basin. Almost half the flakes were spalled and otherwise heat altered. Other artifacts in fill: 2 biface frags., 4 tool edge frags. , and 5 utilized flakes. Considered to be L. Archaic in age. Coney Lake complex, based on the basal portion of a Coney Lake proj pt found near the hearth. Four other proj pts or hafted knives of the same stype were collected from the meadow directly N of the trail at this location.