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A Radiocarbon Date on the Davis Site in East Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Alex D. Krieger
Alex D. Krieger*
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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In a letter dated Jan. 12, 1951, James B. Griffin informed me of a radiocarbon date on the Davis site, received from W. F. Libby of the Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago. An age of 1553 ± 175 years was obtained on charred corn cobs from a floor pit of feature 31, a large circular house outline in the submound village. According to the published interpretation, feature 31 belongs to phase 1 of the Alto focus, had most of the pottery types of this focus on its floor, and probably did not antedate the initial temple-mound construction by many years.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 144 - 145
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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References

1 H. Perry Newell and Alex D. Krieger, The George C. Davis Site, Cherokee County, Texas. Society for American Archaeology, Memoir 5, 1945. Volney H. Jones’ analysis of the Davis site corn and his reconstruction of corn diffusions in North America are found in the appendix. The dated corn is from lot 5888 (see P. 248).

2 The other date listed as Tchefuncte (1317 ± 150 A.D.) obviously cannot apply to this culture.