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- Lab number
- Beta-129319
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- Mesa
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2024
- Updater
- Wyoming team
- Date updated
- December 31, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1250 ± 50
- Stratigraphic component
- 18 cm bmgs
- Context
- Feature 13, a rock filled hearth/roasting pit, originating 18 cm bmgs. Entirely behind the drip line, near the extreme E end of the shelter. The feature contained 2 concentrations of charcoal stained fill, both roughly circular and basin shaped. In its entirety, the feature measured 89 x 73 cm, 28 cm deep. A good deal of FCR was associated with the feature, both in the fill and on top of and adjacent to the feature. The 7 stones in the fill weighed 3.5 kg. 25 pieces of debitage were recovered. Macrobotanical remains: 13 pieces of carbonized alder, serviceberry, juniper, pinyon, cotonwood, oak, plus 1 serviceberry seed, 58 goosefoot seeds, 1 bugseed, 14 grass seeds, 2 knotweed seeds, 2 bulrush seeds, 1 cactus spine frags. All seeds were charred. Faunal remains: 78 unidentified small mammal bone frags., 1 mammal bone. All were burned. The feature was probably used for cooking. Associated with Component 4.