Ancient Cacao Map

Information

ID: 26
Other ID: FS 295-4-170
Type: MacroSample
Subtype: Seed
Site: Cerén
Depositional context: House Floor
Condition: Charred
Pottery type: Nondiagnostic, unslipped
Vessel form:

Possible cacao seed recovered from a vessel on the floor of House 4 (Lentz et al. 250, Table 1).

Phase Date

Name: Early Classic
Lower cal years bp: 1800
Midpoint cal Years BP: 1600
Upper cal years bp: 1400

Radiocarbon Date

Lab number: N/A
Dating method: Conventional
Directly dated: No
Dated material: Thatch
Contaminated?: No
Lower cal BP (years): 1518
Median cal BP (years): 1306
Upper cal BP (years): 1090
Uncal BP (years): 1390
± 1 σ (years): 90
δ13C:

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References Cited

Lentz, David L., Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, Maria Luisa Reyna de Aguilar and Lawrence Kaplan
1996 Foodstuffs, Forests, Fields, and Shelter: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Vessel Contents from the Ceren Site, El Salvador. Latin American Antiquity 7(3):247–262.

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