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A High-Precision Chronology for Two House Features at an Early Village Site on Western Santa Cruz Island, California, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2016

Christopher S Jazwa ,
Lynn H Gamble  and
Douglas J Kennett
Christopher S Jazwa*
Affiliation:
1Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Lynn H Gamble
Affiliation:
3Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Douglas J Kennett
Affiliation:
1Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
*
2Corresponding author. Email: jazwa@psu.edu.
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Abstract

We establish a high-precision radiocarbon chronology for 2 house depressions at CA-SCRI-333, a large prehistoric village on the western end of Santa Cruz Island, California, USA. SCRI-333 is a large mound composed of a shell midden with more than 50 house depressions evident across its surface. We develop a chronology of occupation and activity for 2 of these depressions (6 and 32) based on a stratified sequence of accelerator mass spectrometry 14C dates. Carbonized twig and marine shell (Mytilus californianus) samples were selected from well-defined stratigraphic sections. Analytical error for these measurements is ±20 14C yr. We use a Bayesian statistical framework to propose an age model for the deposition of 2 features that may be associated with house construction. These data indicated that the features were not contemporaneous and suggest that house construction may have been sequential during the site's occupation, a hypothesis that needs to be tested further. The methodologies used in this study have the potential to increase the chronological precision of household archaeology at SCRI-333, on the northern Channel Islands, and around the world.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 2013 , pp. 185 - 199
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Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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