Ancient Cacao Map

Information

ID: 64
Other ID: Sample 100
Type: ChemicalSample
Subtype: Caffeine and Theobromine
Site: Pueblo Bonito
Depositional context: Burial
Pottery type: Chaco Black-on-White
Vessel form: pitcher

Catalog#:H/3585. Pitcher recovered from an elite burial context (Room 32) (Washburn et al. 2011, supplementary material). This vessel remained in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) until it was tested chemically (Washburn et al. 2011:1637).

Phase Date

Name: Middle Pueblo Bonito
Lower cal years bp: 875
Midpoint cal Years BP: 837
Upper cal years bp: 800

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References Cited

Washburn, Dorothy K., William N. Washburn and Petia A. Shipkova
2011 The Prehistoric Drug Trade: Widespread Consumption of Cacao in Ancestral Pueblo and Hohokam Communities in the American Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(7):1634-1640.

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