San Antonio

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This site is located on Albion Island in the floodplain of the secondary channel of the Hondo River towards the north-eastern side of the village San Antonio (Bloom et al. 1983). Puleston began excavating the site in 1973 and continued in 1974. The macro-botanical maize fragments collected at the site comprised 68% of the total botanical sample. Mapping coordinates approximate.

ID Other ID Type Subtype Uncal BP (years) ± 1 σ (years) Median cal BP (years) Lower cal BP (years) Upper cal BP (years) δ13C Contaminated?
521 DIC-2170 MacroSample stalk 2626 190 2722 3255 2211 No

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References Cited

Bloom, P. R., M. Pohl and J. Stein
    1985    Analysis of Sedimentation and Agriculture Along the Río Hondo, Northern Belize. In Prehistoric Lowland Maya Environment and Subsistence Economy, edited by M. Pohl, pp. 21-33, 77. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bloom, P. R., M. Pohl, C. Buttleman, F. Wiseman, A. Covich, C. Miksicek, J. Ball and J. Stein
    1983    Prehistoric Maya Wetland Agriculture and the Alluvial Soils near San Antonio Rio Hondo, Belize. Nature 301(3):417-419.

Wiseman, F.
    1990    San Antonio: A Late Holocene Record of Agricultural Activity in the Maya Lowlands. In Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture: Excavations on Albion Island, Northern Belize, edited by M. Pohl, pp. 313-322. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.