Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, Mieczysław F. Pazdur †, Andrzej Krzanowski, Adam Michczyński
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- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- Y-1545
- Delta13 Correction:
- 100
- Age BP:
- 1140 ± 80
- Sitename:
- Caimito TAM-2
- Country:
- Peru
- Material:
- charcoal mixed
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- excavation
- Context of the Sample:
- From lowest layer of rectangular grave filled with several layers of smashed pottery of Cumancaya complex,
- Description of the Site:
- Grave of an important personage of Cumancaya society on the border of Imariacocha Lake , Valley of Rio Tamaya, Central Ucayali Basin
- Location Details
- Country:
- Peru
- Administration Unit:
- Uc Coronel Portillo
- Latitude:
- -74.333333
- Longitude:
- -8.85
- Altitude:
- 155
- Project Details
- Collected:
- Lathrap D.; 1964
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- In RAVIN67 the date erroneously reported as 810 +- 60 BC. ?Compare comment to Y-1544. 0
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- Feature was encountered at Caimito site, but not one sherd of ?Caimito complex ceramics (dominant component on site) occured ?witin this feature and Cumancaya sherds were not encouterded ?elsewhere on site. Absolute absence of Caimito sherds in fill of ?pit suggest that pit eas dug and refilled before any Caimito ?occupation had occured in area, suggestion strongly supported by ?date (cf Y/9).
- Publication date:
- 1963
- References:
- - Stuiver M., 1969, Yale Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IX, Radiocarbon, vol. 11, no. 2,635
- Ravines R., Alvarez Sauri J.J., 1967, Fechas radiocarbonicas para el Peru, Arqueologicas 11, Museo Nacional de Antropologia y Arqueologia, Pueblo Libre-Lima,36
- Lathrap D. W., 1970, The Upper Amazon, Ancient Peoples and Places, vol. 70, Thames and Hudson, London,138
- Ravines R., 1982, Panorama de la arqueologia andina, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima,186
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.