Early Corn Remains from Tumamoc Hill, Southern Arizona

Early Corn Remains from Tumamoc Hill, Southern Arizona

The tandem accelerator mass spectrometer provided critical dating of corn remains in Archaic levels of juxtaposed Archaic and Hohokam occupations on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, Arizona. This new radiometric technology confirmed an Archaic placement suggested by stratigraphy and artifact distributions. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:American antiquity 1986-07, Vol.51 (3), p.563-572
Hauptverfasser: Fish, Paul R., Fish, Suzanne K., Long, Austin, Miksicek, Charles
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
American civilisations
Archaeological sites
Art and archaeology
Charcoal
Corn
Excavations
Paleoanthropology
Pollen
Pueblos
Radiocarbon
Radiocarbon dating
Terraces
Vegetation
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Zusammenfassung:The tandem accelerator mass spectrometer provided critical dating of corn remains in Archaic levels of juxtaposed Archaic and Hohokam occupations on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, Arizona. This new radiometric technology confirmed an Archaic placement suggested by stratigraphy and artifact distributions. The small sample of intact remains resembles other directly-dated early corn in the Southwest and reinforces an interpretation of preceramic cultivators in the Sonoran Desert.
ISSN:0002-7316
2325-5064
DOI:10.2307/281752