Puerto Escondido is a village site located in northern Honduras on a small tributary of the Chamelecon River (Joyce and Henderson 2007:642). Joyce and Henderson (2007:643) excavated this site over four field seasons and found evidence of human occupation from cultural materials and remains of human constructions. The authors recovered fragments of vessels and preformed a chemical analysis of 13 fragments of pottery to test for evidence of cacao (Joyce and Henderson 2007:643). "Eleven tested positive for traces diagnostic chemicals, theobromine and caffeine, in analyses by three different labs using a mixture of extraction and detection methods" (Joyce and Henderson 2007:643).
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ID | Other ID | Type | Subtype | Uncal BP (years) | ± 1 σ (years) | Median cal BP (years) | Lower cal BP (years) | Upper cal BP (years) | δ13C | Contaminated? |
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100 | Sample 4DL-107 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
101 | Sample 4DC-104 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
103 | Sample 4DC-118 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
104 | Sample 4DC-118 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
105 | Sample 4DC-23 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
102 | Sample 4DC-116 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
107 | Sample 4DC-130 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
108 | Sample 4DC-130 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
99 | Sample 8K-31 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | 2290 | 40 | 2309 | 2356 | 2157 | No | |
109 | Sample 4DK-136 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine | |||||||
106 | Sample 4DM-17 | ChemicalSample | Theobromine |