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Cairn Burials of the California Deserts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Philip J. Wilke
Philip J. Wilke*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
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Abstract

The Yuha cairn burial from southeastern California is said to be more than 21,000 years old, based on radiocarbon dates and a Th-230 date obtained on soil carbonate. The burial itself is undated. Several other cairn burials are known from the California deserts, and these are dated from 5000 B.P. to historic times. Until the Yuha burial itself is dated, one must consider that it may belong to this more recent pattern of disposal of the dead.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1978 , pp. 444 - 448
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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