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Domesticated Chenopodium in Prehistoric Eastern North America: New Accelerator Dates from Eastern Kentucky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bruce D. Smith  and
C. Wesley Cowan
Bruce D. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
C. Wesley Cowan
Affiliation:
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
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Abstract

Specimens of desiccated Chenopodium berlandieri ssp. jonesianum from Cloudsplitter and Newt Kash Rock-shelters in Menifee County, eastern Kentucky yielded accelerator dates of 3450 ± 150 B.P. and 3400 ± 150 B.P., respectively, extending the known age of this prehistoric domesticate by 1,000 years.

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Reports
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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 355 - 357
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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