- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- WIS-1941
- Delta13 Correction:
- 100
- Age BP:
- 8430 ± 110
- Sitename:
- Tunsho
- Country:
- Peru
- Material:
- peat
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- unknown
- Context of the Sample:
- Basal peat from 429 to 433 cm depth. Peat growth at this site started as soon as early Holocene glacier retreated from moraine.
- Description of the Site:
- Tunsho site
- Location Details
- Country:
- Peru
- Administration Unit:
- Ju
- Latitude:
- -11.833333
- Longitude:
- -75.1
- Altitude:
- 4700
- Project Details
- Collected:
- Wright H. E.; 1986
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- 0
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- SELTZ90 reports the sitename as Sample Sit1 (Quebrada Anas).
- Publication date:
- 0
- References:
- - Steventon R. L., Kutzbach J. E., 1988, University of Wisconsin Radiocarbon Dates XXV, Radiocarbon, vol. 30, no 3, pp. 367-383,382
- Seltzer G. O., Hastorf C. A., 1990, Climatic Change and its Effect on Prehispanic Agriculture in the Central Peruvian Andes, Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 17, pp. 397-414,401
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.