Ancient Maize Map

Information

ID: 106
Other ID: Beta-89860
Type: MacroSample
Subtype: cob
Site: Costello-King
Depositional context: hearth
Condition: charred
Pottery type: not applicable
Vessel form: not applicable

Five cupules and four cob fragments were recovered from hearth Feature 19, near the bottom of Unit II (Ezzo and Deaver 1998:23, 57, Table 3). This date is on one of the cob fragments.

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: Beta-89860
Dating method: AMS
Directly dated: Yes
Dated material: charred maize
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 3058
Median cal BP (years): 2872
Upper cal BP (years): 2755
Uncal BP (years): 2770
± 1 σ (years): 60
δ13C: -12.4

Attached Files

References Cited

Ezzo, J. A. and W. L. Deaver
1998 Watering the Desert: Late Archaic Farming at the Costello-King Site. Technical Series No. 68. Statistical Research, Inc., Tucson.

Mabry, J. B. (editor)
2008 Las Capas: Early Irrigation and Sedentism in a Southwestern Floodplain. Anthropological Papers No. 28. Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson.

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