- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- V-2648-35
- Delta13 Correction:
- -9.9
- Age BP:
- 1041 ± 25
- Sitename:
- Pica 8
- Country:
- Chile
- Material:
- human bone colagen
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- unit B0419
- Context of the Sample:
- funerary context
- Description of the Site:
- Pica 8 is a Late Intermediate Period (AD 900–1450) cemetery located in the Atacama Desert. Burials at the site present unexpectedly high variability in ?13C (–8‰ to –16‰) and ?15N (10‰ to 24‰) values in their skeletal tissues, implying highly diverse diets.
- Location Details
- Country:
- Chile
- Administration Unit:
- Tarapaca
- Latitude:
- -20.491667
- Longitude:
- -69.3375
- Altitude:
- 1320
- Project Details
- Collected:
- 1963-2021
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- Publication date:
- 2015
- References:
- Santana-Sagredo, F., Schulting, R., Lee-Thorp, J., Agüero, C., Uribe, M., & Lemp, C. (2017). Paired Radiocarbon Dating on Human Samples and Camelid Fibers and Textiles from Northern Chile: The Case of Pica 8 (Tarapacá). Radiocarbon, 59(4), 1195-1213. :
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.