Radiocarbon Dating the Fur Trade: Bayesian Analyses of Fur-Trade Era Radiocarbon Dates from the Lower Columbia River

The Cardamom Mountain Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung is the most extensive example of the distinctive burial ritual first reported by Beavan et al. (2012a). The 40 intact Mae Nam Noi and late Angkorian-era ceramic jars used as burial vessels held a total of up to 152 individuals, representing the largest corpus of skeletal remains of any of the 10 known Jar and Coffin burial sites that have been discovered in the eastern ranges of the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia. We report here on the radiocarbon dating of this site and notable burial phenomena, using a Bayesian approach to model the start and end date of activity as well as its overall span. The results of the dating and Bayesian analyses indicate that the Phnom Khnang Peung site's earliest burials begancal AD 1420–1440(95% probability). Interestingly, the concentration of burial activity spans only15–45 years(95% probability), despite the large number of inhumations at the site. The14C chronology presented for the site places the Highland burial ritual coincident with a period of economic, political, and societal transformations in the lowland Angkorian polity, but the unique burial practice and trade relationships evidenced by the burial goods and maritime trade ware ceramics employed in the burial ritual suggest these Highland people were a culture apart from Angkorian cultural influences.

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Calibrated Radiocarbon Dating at Keatley Creek: The Chronology of Occupation at a Complex Hunter-Gatherer Village

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/3557069 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 68 (4) ◽

pp. 719-735 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

William C. Prentiss ◽

Michael Lenert ◽

Thomas A. Foor ◽

Nathan B. Goodale ◽

Trinity Schlegel

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Climatic Factors ◽

Climatic Warming ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Population Aggregation ◽

Selective Environment

This paper provides an analysis of radiocarbon dates acquired during earlier and recent field seasons at the Keatley Creek site, southern British Columbia. Results indicate that early occupations predating 1900 cal. B.P. occurred, but were not likely associated with population aggregation and large housepits. The aggregated village appears to have emerged by approximately 1700 cal. B.P. and was abandoned at approximately 800 cal. B.P. A break in the occupational sequence is recognized at 1450-1350 cal. B.P. and one other short break may have occurred shortly after 1250 cal. B.P. Peak socioeconomic complexity appears to have been achieved between 1350 and 800 cal B.P. Climatic warming may have provided a selective environment favoring population aggregation and intensification during this time. The final abandonment of the Keatley Creek village appears to have been part of a regional phenomenon suggesting the possibility that climatic factors were important in this case as well.

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Paleoclimatic Implications of Radiocarbon Dating Of Speleothems from the Cracow-Wieluń Upland, Southern Poland

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200030538 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 103-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Anna Pazdur ◽

Mieczysław F. Pazdur ◽

Jacek Pawlyta ◽

Andrzej Górny ◽

Michał Olszewski

Keyword(s):

Systematic Study ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Karst Region ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

Last Glaciation ◽

Geological Museum ◽

Paleoclimatic Records ◽

Age Range

We report preliminary results of a long-term systematic study intended to gather paleoclimatic records from precisely dated speleothems. The research project is limited to speleothems deposited in caves of the Cracow-Wieluń Upland, the largest and best-explored karst region in Poland, covering ca. 2900 km2 with >1000 caves. Speleothem samples were selected from collections of the Geological Museum of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow. Radiocarbon dates of these samples from ca. 45–20 ka bp almost exactly coincide with age range of the Interplenivistulian. A break in speleothem formation between ca. 20 and 10 ka bp may be interpreted as a result of serious climatic deterioration associated with the maximum extent of the last glaciation. We observed differences among 14C, U/Th and AAR dating results. Changes of δ13C and δ18O in speleothems that grew between ca. 30 and 20 ka bp may be interpreted as changes of paleoclimatic conditions.

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Radiocarbon dates from Fazzan, southern Libya

Libyan Studies ◽

10.1017/s0263718900005082 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 33 ◽

pp. 9-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

David Mattingly ◽

David Edwards ◽

John Dore

Keyword(s):

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Short Paper ◽

Important Conclusion ◽

Historic Period ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Full List ◽

Ams Dating ◽

The 1960S ◽

Early Islamic

AbstractThis short paper presents a full list of the currently available radiocarbon dates from the work of Charles Daniels in the 1960s-1970s and the Fazzan Project (1997-2001). The dates can be grouped into several categories, by site or area, and demonstrate the potential of radiocarbon dating being applied to historic-period archaeology in the Sahara. This complements earlier Italian work on later prehistory. One of the most important conclusions to emerge is that the construction of castle-like buildings in Fazzan began within the Garamantian period and that some of the numerous well-preserved mudbrick fortified sites are thus rather earlier than has previously been envisaged. A second important conclusion is that the use of AMS dating can help to identify and confirm activity of the post-Garamantian and early Islamic phases, which has hitherto been elusive.

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The Integration of Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200005956 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 639-644 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

H T Waterbolk

Keyword(s):

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

The Other ◽

New Method ◽

Time Range ◽

Traditional Methods ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Fully Integrated ◽

Expected Time ◽

The Past

In the past 30 years many hundreds of archaeologic samples have been dated by radiocarbon laboratories. Yet, one cannot say that 14C dating is fully integrated into archaeology. For many archaeologists, a 14C date is an outside expertise, for which they are grateful, when it provides the answer to an otherwise insoluble chronologic problem and when it falls within the expected time range. But if a 14C date contradicts other chronologic evidence, they often find the ‘solution’ inexplicable. Some archaeologists are so impressed by the new method, that they neglect the other evidence; others simply reject problematic 14C dates as archaeologically unacceptable. Frequently, excavation reports are provided with an appendix listing the relevant 14C dates with little or no discussion of their implication. It is rare, indeed, to see in archaeologic reports a careful weighing of the various types of chronologic evidence. Yet, this is precisely what the archaeologist is accustomed to do with the evidence from his traditional methods for building up a chronology: typology and stratigraphy. Why should he not be able to include radiocarbon dates in the same way in his considerations?

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Freshwater reservoir offsets on radiocarbon-dated dog bone from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, USA

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.7174 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. e7174

Author(s):

John P. Hart ◽

Robert S. Feranec ◽

Timothy J. Abel ◽

Jessica L. Vavrasek

Keyword(s):

Native Americans ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Aquatic Organisms ◽

Human Bone ◽

Bone Collagen ◽

Canis Lupus Familiaris ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Dog Bone ◽

Freshwater Reservoir ◽

St Lawrence River

Isotopic analysis of dog (Canis lupus familiaris) bone recovered from archaeological sites as proxies for human bone is becoming common in North America. Chronological placement of the dogs is often determined through radiocarbon dating of dog bone. The Great Lakes, their tributaries, and nearby lakes and streams were important fisheries for Native Americans prior to and after sustained European presence in the region. Carbon entering the food web in freshwater systems is often not in full isotopic equilibrium with the atmosphere, giving rise to spuriously old radiocarbon ages in fish, other aquatic organisms, and their consumers. These freshwater reservoir offsets (FROs) have been noted on human and dog bone in several areas of the world. Here we report the results of multi-tracer Bayesian dietary modeling using δ15N and δ13C values on dog bone collagen from mid-fifteenth to mid-sixteenth-century Iroquoian village sites at the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, New York, USA. Results indicate that fish was an important component of dog diets. A comparison of radiocarbon dates on dog bone with dates on deer bone or maize from the same sites indicate FROs ranging from 97 ± 24 to 220 ± 39 14Cyr with a weighted mean of 132 ± 8 14Cyr. These results suggest that dog bone should not be used for radiocarbon dating in the absence of modeling to determine fish consumption and that previously reported radiocarbon dates on human bone from the larger region are likely to have FROs given the known importance of fish in regional human diets.

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Radiocarbon Dates from Bosumpra Cave, Abetifi, Ghana

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society ◽

10.1017/s0079497x00010975 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 179-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Andrew B. Smith

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Organic Material ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Analytical Description ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Moist Forest ◽

Forest Regions ◽

Marginal Forest ◽

The University ◽

University Of Ghana

In 1940 Professor Thurstan Shaw excavated a trench in the cave known as Bosumpra at Abetifi (6° 41′N:0° 44′W) on the borderline between the moist forest and the northern marginal forest (fig. 1). Bosumpra is one of the four main ‘abosom’ (lesser) gods of the Guan pantheon (Brokenshaw 1966, 156). The report (Shaw, 1944) showed that the cave was formerly inhabited by a people with a pottery-using microlithic culture and provided the first analytical description of the microlithic industries from the forest regions of West Africa. As the site was the first of its kind to be excavated, and the excavation was carried out before the advent of radiocarbon dating, there was no way of knowing what age this industry was, or how long the cave had been occupied, beyond placing it within the rubric of the so-called “Guinea Neolithic”.To attempt to clarify this problem a group of students from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Ghana and myself conducted the excavation of a small witness section (fig. 2) in the cave over New Year 1973/74 with the specific aim of collecting organic material for dating. We were fortunate in finding adequate amounts of charcoal at all levels. Two of these samples were submitted to Rikagaku Kenkyusho, Japan, for dating.

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An Archaeomagnetic Study of Hangi Stones in New Zealand

10.26686/wgtn.17058068.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Rimpy Kinger

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Principal Component ◽

Blocking Temperature ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

The North ◽

Sw Pacific ◽

Archaeomagnetic Dating ◽

Show Evidence ◽

Temperature Spectra

<p>Burnt or fired archaeological artefacts often retain a record of the magnetic field in which they were last heated and cooled. Over the past four years we have collected oriented hangi stones from 10 archaeological sites spread across the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The stones vary in lithology from andesites, originating from the central North Island volcanoes, favoured by Maori for their durability and with remanent magnetization up to 30 A/m, to sandstones and schists from the main axial ranges, with magnetizations as weak as 10-4 A/m. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal fragments retrieved from amongst the stones indicates that the sites span from ca. 1400 AD to the present. In all cases, we have independently oriented and retrieved several stones, and we have made several samples from each stone, either by drilling (standard cylindrical samples) or sawing (pseudo-cubes) in the laboratory. We have calculated site mean palaeomagnetic directions (Dec between 1.5o and 19.6o and Inc between -52.2o and -68.3o) from principal component analysis of thermal demagnetization and alternating field demagnetization data, discarding the data of stones that show evidence of disturbance after cooling. The directions are in good agreement with recently published palaeosecular variation records from lake sediments. We have carried out palaeointensity experiments using the Coe/Thellier method with pTRM and tail checks, and with selection criteria modified to the situation. Palaeointensities range from 50μT to 77μT. Rock magnetic experiments contribute to our understanding of the mineralogy, domain state and blocking temperature spectra. We compare our data with predictions of the global field models ARCH3k and gufm1, and suggest that the addition of our new data will improve these models for the SW Pacific region for the most recent time period. Archaeomagnetic measurements are also used to date hangi sites by matching the palaeo-direction to an established archaeomagnetic dating model, NZPSV1k. Archaeomagnetic dating is used to resolve ambiguities in the calibration of radiocarbon dates, and shows up inconsistencies due to unreliable source material for radiocarbon dating. Archaeomagnetic dating and radiocarbon dating results are combined to give the best estimates of the best age of the hangi sites.</p>

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New Radiocarbon Dates from the Sanders Site (41LR2), Lamar County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State ◽

10.21112/ita.2017.1.29 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Perttula

Keyword(s):

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Significant Part ◽

Red River ◽

East Texas ◽

The West ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Animal Bone ◽

Animal Bones ◽

Two Samples

Recent archaeological investigations at the West Mound at the Sanders site (41LR2), on the Red River in Lamar County, Texas, disclosed substantial archaeological deposits associated with a burned clay floor to an ancestral Caddo structure in the mound. A significant part of the archaeological deposit were unburned animal bones of turtle, deer, and bison, along with Middle Caddo period, Sanders phase, fine and utility ware ceramic sherds; Sanders is one of 26 known Caddo sites in East Texas with bison bones and/or tools. In this article, I discuss the results of the radiocarbon dating of two samples of animal bone—deer and bison—from the West Mound at the Sanders site.

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