- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- UCIAMS-145143
- Delta13 Correction:
- Age BP:
- 10010 ± 30
- Sitename:
- Chipana 1
- Country:
- Chile
- Material:
- charcoal
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- unit U-TP5, sub unit E-3
- Context of the Sample:
- funerary context
- Description of the Site:
- lithic raw-material extraction and workshop site, of a silicified rock of good quality, mainly related to the production of bifacial tools (façonnage), and to a lesser extent, of flakes (débitage) on surface. This is the first site in northern Chile that provides information on the first stages of lithic production, such as raw-material selection and reduction (dégrossissage).
- Location Details
- Country:
- Chile
- Administration Unit:
- Tarapaca
- Latitude:
- -21.2801277778
- Longitude:
- -70.0318611111
- Altitude:
- 1250
- Project Details
- Collected:
- 1963-2021
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- Publication date:
- 2017
- References:
- Herrera, K. A., Pelegrin, J., Gayo, E., & Santoro, C. M. (2019). Circulation of Objects and Raw Material in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile by the End of the Pleistocene. PaleoAmerica, 5(4), 335–348.:
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.