Sample Details

Sample ID:
U-2454
Delta13 Correction:
100
Age BP:
1000 ± 65
Sitename:
Chilca Valley
Country:
Peru
Material:
charcoal
Sample Details:
Provenience:
excavation
Context of the Sample:
Period of initial construction and use
Description of the Site:
Excavation IV-H5-C, Unit P (medium gray sand, contains small shell fragments), depth below surface: ca 1.5 m Chilca Valley
Location Details

Country:
Peru
Administration Unit:
Li Canete
Longitude:
-12.5
Latitude:
-76.75
Altitude:
20
Project Details

Collected:
Parsons J.R., Psuty N.P.; 1970
Project:
Sunken Fields
Laboratory comment:
The second version of this sample
Contamination:
Archaeological comment:
Publication date:
1973
References:
- Parsons J. R., Psuty N. P., 1974, Agricultura de chacras hundidas en el antiguo Peru, Revista del Museo Nacional, pp. 31-53,48-49
- Parsons J. R., Psuty N. P., 1975, Sunken Fields and Prehispanic Subsistence on the Peruvian Coast, American Antiquity, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 259-282,274-275