Ancient Maize Map

Information

ID: 277
Other ID: Beta-22834
Type: MacroSample
Subtype: cupule
Site: Rush (9FL164)
Depositional context: midden
Condition: charred
Pottery type: not applicable
Vessel form: not applicable

B-22834/ETH 3395. This sample is a maize cupule recovered from a midden deposit dating to a Cartersville component: AD 660 ± 100 (1290 ± 100), uncorrected (Wood and Bowen 1995:77). We correct this sample using Stuiver and Reimer's formula for fractionation correction (http://intcal.qub.ac.uk/calib/fractionation.html) and a maize d13C value of -10.0 +/- 2. The correction for the sample, 1290 ± 100 bp, is 1535 ± 105 corrected rcybp.

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: Beta-22834
Dating method: AMS
Directly dated: Yes
Dated material: charred maize
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 1694
Median cal BP (years): 1444
Upper cal BP (years): 1280
Uncal BP (years): 1535
± 1 σ (years): 105
δ13C:

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References Cited

Wood, W. D. and W. R. Bowen
1995 Woodland Period Archaeology in Northern Georgia. University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology Series, Report No. 33. University of Georgia, Athens.

Wood, W. D. and R. J. Ledbetter
1990 Rush: An Early Woodland Period Site in Northwest Georgia. Occasional Papers in Cultural Resource Management, No. 4. Georgia Department of Transportation, Office of Environmental Analysis, Atlanta.

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