IDENTIFICATION OF CHARCOAL AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF SAMPLES FROM THE FISH WEIR SITE (49-GUL-380) AND THE LITTLE SWEDE LITHIC SCATTER (SITE 49-XMH-1005), ALASKA

• Main Author: Puseman, Kathryn (PaleoResearch Institute)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: the Digital Archaeological Record
• Subjects: Data Recovery / Excavation; Fish Weir site; 49-GUL-380; Little Swede Lithic Scatter; 49-XMH-1005; Dating Sample; Macrobotanical; Charcoal; Charcoal Identification; AMS Radiocarbon Dating; AMS Radiocarbon Analysis; 10-146; Weir; ahtna; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8DV1JFN_meta$v=1476486634266

One partially charred wood sample from the Fish Weir site, 49-GUL-380, and two charcoal samples from the Little Swede Lithic Scatter, site 49-XMH-1005, were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. Site 49-GUL-380 is situated near the Gulkana River in south central Alaska and is known ethnographically as the location of the northernmost fishing weir of the Gulkana-Gakona band of the Ahtna (John Jangala, personal communication, September 21, 2010). The sample was recovered from a fire-cracked rock (FCR) locus. Site 49-XMH-1005 is situated in the Tangle Lakes Archaeological District, also in south central Alaska. Charcoal samples were taken from units in a circular cluster of lithic debitage.