- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- Beta-19549
- Delta13 Correction:
- 100
- Age BP:
- 3400 ± 100
- Sitename:
- Pampa del Palo beach
- Country:
- Peru
- Material:
- carbon
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- excavation
- Context of the Sample:
- From a midden 3m below ground surface
- Description of the Site:
- small shell midden, see: ARCCOM far S coast, Osmore River drainage, S of the Osmore, one of the sites located on the Pampa del Palo beach
- Location Details
- Country:
- Peru
- Administration Unit:
- Mo
- Latitude:
- -17.708333
- Longitude:
- -71.291667
- Altitude:
- 140
- Project Details
- Collected:
- Aldenderfer M.; 0
- Project:
- Northwestern Univ. Archai
- Laboratory comment:
- 0
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- The settlement pattern S of the Osmore is characterized by small ?shell middens dotting the Pampa del Palo beach, including the ?Shell Ring site, wich according to Robert Feldman (Field Museum) ?has a sequence of radiocarbon measurments ranging from 7665 to ?10595 BP. Some littoral sites have been buried by colluvation ?from the coastal hills and are found up to 4m below the present ?ground level. A carbon sample taken from a midden 3 m below ground ?surface has produced a measurement of 3400+-100BP (Beta-19549).
- Publication date:
- 0
- References:
- - Burger R. L., 1988, Andean South America (Ecuador, Southern Peru) - Current Research, American Antiquity, vol. 53, no 1, pp. 180-184 ,183
Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, Mieczysław F. Pazdur †, Andrzej Krzanowski, Adam Michczyński
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.