Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, Mieczysław F. Pazdur †, Andrzej Krzanowski, Adam Michczyński

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Sample Details

Sample ID:
GX-3863
Delta13 Correction:
-25,2
Age BP:
6085 ± 180
Sitename:
Aspero
Country:
Peru
Material:
plant fragments gourd
Sample Details:
As8A-14 = 25
Provenience:
excavation
Context of the Sample:
Site A8
Description of the Site:
a large Preceramic settlement of about 13.2 ha with midden deposits, ceremonial mounds, plazas and terraces near the sea-shore, on the N margin of the Supe Valley, at the limits between Central and North Coast
Location Details

Country:
Peru
Administration Unit:
Li
Latitude:
-10.814504791
Longitude:
-77.74059886
Altitude:
20
Project Details

Collected:
Feldman R. A.; 0
Project:
Laboratory comment:
Delta 13C corrected.Date is based on a half-life of 5570 years. Corrected using ?tables in DAMON74 (cf Feldman 1985). 0
Contamination:
Archaeological comment:
Publication date:
0
References:
- Feldman R. A., 1985, Preceramic Corporate Architecture: Evidence for the Development of Non-Egalitarian Social Systems in Peru [in:] C. Donnan (ed.), Early Ceremonial Architecture in the Andes, Washington, pp. 71-92,77
- Feldman R. A., 1987, Aspero, [in:] HAASJ87, pp. 3-14,10
- Wilcox G., 1994, Table of Radiocarbon Age Determinations Analyzed at Geochron Laboratories confirmed for the Andean Archaeological Mission of Warsaw University (in a letter of Dr. G. Wilcox to A. Michczynski, April 27th 1994)

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We are very grateful to Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey for his support in the installation of the date calibration system, based on the OxCal program.