- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- UCLA-2702F
- Delta13 Correction:
- 100
- Age BP:
- 850 ± 325
- Sitename:
- Machu Picchu
- Country:
- Peru
- Material:
- bone human (M) weight 40.70 g
- Sample Details:
- Yale no. 3239
- Provenience:
- excavation
- Context of the Sample:
- Grave no. 84
- Description of the Site:
- The ruins of the Inca citadel Located on a saddle between two mountains in the Vilcabamba Cordillera of the eastern Andes above a loop in the river Urubamba
- Location Details
- Country:
- Peru
- Administration Unit:
- Cu Urubamba
- Latitude:
- -13.163667
- Longitude:
- -72.544833
- Altitude:
- 2450
- Project Details
- Collected:
- ; 0
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- See UCLA-2702A. 0
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- Publication date:
- 0
- References:
- - Berger R., Chohfi R., Valencia Zegarra A., Yepez W., Fernandez Carrasco 0., 1988, Radiocarbon Dating Machu Picchu, Peru. Antiquity, vol. 62, pp. 707-710,709
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.