Ancient Maize Map

Information

ID: 283
Other ID: Beta-84971
Type: MacroSample
Subtype: cupule
Site: 211-1-1
Depositional context: hearth
Condition: charred
Pottery type:
Vessel form:

Feature 44 was a large hearth that produced lithic debitage, fire-cracked rock, charred wood and nutshell, and maize." (Cassedy and Webb 1999:87-89).

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: Beta-84971
Dating method: AMS
Directly dated: Yes
Dated material: charred maize
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 515
Median cal BP (years): 439
Upper cal BP (years): 315
Uncal BP (years): 390
± 1 σ (years): 50
δ13C:

Attached Files

References Cited

Cassedy, D. and P. Webb
1999 New Data on the Chronology of Maize Horticulture in Eastern New York and Southern New England. In Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany, edited by J. P. Hart, pp. 85-99, Bulletin No. 494. New York State Museum, Albany.

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