Ancient Maize Map

Information

ID: 650
Other ID: AA-21978
Type: MacroSample
Subtype: unknown
Site: Roundtop
Depositional context: feature
Condition: unknown
Pottery type: not applicable
Vessel form: not applicable

Zea mays recovered from Feature 35, west of House 1.

This date has been reported in the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD) (Morlan and Betts 1999).

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: AA-21978
Dating method: AMS
Directly dated: Yes
Dated material: uncharred maize
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 490
Median cal BP (years): 392
Upper cal BP (years): 304
Uncal BP (years): 330
± 1 σ (years): 45
δ13C:

Attached Files

References Cited

Funk, R. E.
1993 Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Susquehanna Valley, New York State. Persimmon Press Monographs in Archaeology, Vol. 1. Persimmon Press, Buffalo.

Hart, J. P.
2000 New Dates from Classic New York Sites: Just How Old Are Those Longhouses? Northeast Anthropology 60:1-22.

Morlan, R. E. and M. Betts
1999-2005 Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. http://www.canadianarchaeology.ca/. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec.

Ritchie, W. A.
1969 The Archaeology of New York State. The Natural History Press, Garden City.

Stuiver, M.
1969 Yale Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IX. Radiocarbon 11(2):545-658.

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