- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- PUCP-XX14
- Delta13 Correction:
- 100
- Age BP:
- 1010 ± 230
- Sitename:
- Cerro Sechin
- Country:
- Peru
- Material:
- plant rep. as: verk. Maize
- Sample Details:
- PUC M 08
- Provenience:
- excavation
- Context of the Sample:
- SB, c 9-10
- Description of the Site:
- A monumental site. A square central mound, measuring 53 m square and 4 m high, is faced with bas-relief stone carvings depicting warriors, captives, weapons and disarticulated human body parts. Central Coast, in the Sechin branch of the Casma Valley. The site extends across a broad depression in the N flank of the Laguna hill.
- Location Details
- Country:
- Peru
- Administration Unit:
- An Casma
- Latitude:
- -9.467667
- Longitude:
- -78.28
- Altitude:
- 135
- Project Details
- Collected:
- ; 0
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- 0
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- Publication date:
- 0
- References:
- - Fuchs P. R., 1990, Neue Forschungen zur formativ-zeitlichen Besiedlungs-geschichte Cerro Sechins, Peru, Ph. D. dissertation, Freie Universitat Berlin,Tab. 1
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.