A Pilot Study of High Precision Radiocarbon Dating at the Red Wing Locality
Clark A. Dobbs
Senior Research Archaeologist
Institute for Minnesota Archaeology
3300 University Avenue SE, Suite 202
Minneapolis, MN. 55405
A paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology
St. Louis, Missouri
April 14 -18,1993
This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF Project Number DBS-9011744).
Contents
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Abstract
Preface and Acknoledgements
List of Tables
Introduction
The Red Wing Locality
The Bryan Site
High Precision Radiocarbon Dating at the Red Wing Locality
Research objectives
Wood identification
Sample processing
Calibration
Samples and sample contexts
Feature 95
Features 109 and 202
Feature 109
Feature 202
Contemporaneity of Features 109 and 202
Feature 411
Feature 450
Feature 505
Results and Interpretation
Results
Evaluation of 'overlapping dates' method
Interpretation
Evaluation of wood and maize dates
Evaluation and Conclusions
Bibliography
Figures
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