Ancient Maize Map

Information

ID: 47
Other ID: AA-34173
Type: MacroSample
Subtype: unknown
Site: San Luis de Cabezon
Depositional context: midden
Condition: charred
Pottery type: not applicable
Vessel form: not applicable

R.G. Matson (personal communication to M.Blake) notes that archaeologist Patrick Hogan, one of the site's excavators, mentioned in an email to him that a total of five direct dates on maize were obtained and they ranged from 3055 to 3125 uncalBP. The one reported here is the oldest of these.

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: AA-34173
Dating method: AMS
Directly dated: Yes
Dated material:
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 3447
Median cal BP (years): 3352
Upper cal BP (years): 3245
Uncal BP (years): 3125
± 1 σ (years): 45
δ13C:

Attached Files

References Cited

Huckell, L. W.
2006 Ancient Maize in the American Southwest: What does it Look Like and What Can it Tell Us? In Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize, edited by J. E. Staller, R. H. Tykot and B. F. Benz, pp. 97-107. Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam.

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