Ancient Maize Map

Information

ID: 683
Other ID: ISGS-5716
Type: MicroSample
Subtype: pollen
Site: Cerro Blanco 1
Depositional context: midden

A pollen sample (Lab# B401) collected from Pit 1, Level 3, yielded 1 grain of maize pollen. A radiocarbon date was obtained on a fibre bag in deposit, giving a closely associated indirect date for the pollen sample (Haas et al. 2013: Tables S1 and S2).

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: ISGS-5716
Dating method: conventional
Directly dated: No
Dated material: mixed plant fibres
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 4082
Median cal BP (years): 3850
Upper cal BP (years): 3642
Uncal BP (years): 3600
± 1 σ (years): 70
δ13C:

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References Cited

Haas, Jonathan, Winifred Creamer, Luis Huamán Mesía, David Goldstein, Karl Reinhard and Cindy Vergel Rodríguez
2013 Evidence for Maize (Zea mays) in the Late Archaic (3000-1800 B.C.) in the Norte Chico Region of Peru. PNAS Early Edition:1-5.

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