Radiocarbon dating and the "old shell" problem: Direct dating of artifacts and cultural chronologies in coastal and other aquatic regions

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1641-1648

  Rick, Torben C ^a   Vellanoweth, René L ^b   Erlandson, Jon M ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

"Old shell" problem; AMS radiocarbon dating; Artifact chronologies; California; Pacific Coast; Shell beads; Shell fishhooks

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SHELL;

EID: 25144468785     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. 14C ages for recent deposits Nature 271 1978 739-741
2. S. Bowman Radiocarbon Dating 1990 University of California Press Berkeley
3. G.S. Breschini T. Haversat J. Erlandson California Radiocarbon Dates Eighth edition 1996 Coyote Press Salinas, CA
4. J.N. Deo J.O. Stone J.K. Stein Building confidence in shell: Variations in the marine radiocarbon reservoir correction for the Northwest Coast over the past 3000 years American Antiquity 69 2004 771-786
5. T. Dye Apparent ages of marine shells: Implications for archaeological dating in Hawaii Radiocarbon 36 1994 51-57
6. 14C record from southern California Radiocarbon 30 1988 25-39
7. J.M. Erlandson Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast 1994 Plenum New York
8. J.M. Erlandson D.J. Kennett B.L. Ingram D.A. Guthrie D.P. Morris M.A. Tveskov G.J. West P.L. Walker An archaeological and paleontological chronology for Daisy Cave (CA-SMI-261), San Miguel Island, California Radiocarbon 38 1996 355-373
9. J.M. Erlandson M.E. Macko H.C. Koerper J. Southon The antiquity of Olivella shell beads at CA-ORA-64: AMS radiocarbon dated between 9420 and 7780 cal BP Journal of Archaeological Science 32 2005 393-398
10. R.T. Fitzgerald T.L. Jones A. Schroth Ancient long distance trade in western North America: AMS radiocarbon evidence from southern California Journal of Archaeological Science 32 2005 423-434
11. M.A. Glassow The occurrence of red abalone shells in Northern Channel Islands archaeological middens: Implications for climatic reconstruction in; F. Hochberg (Eds) Third California Islands Symposium: Recent Advances in Research on the California Islands 1993 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Santa Barbara 567-576
12. B.L. Ingram Differences in radiocarbon age between shell and charcoal from a Holocene shellmound in northern California Quaternary Research 49 1998 102-110
13. B.L. Ingram J.R. Southon Reservoir ages in eastern Pacific coastal and estuarine waters Radiocarbon 38 1996 571-582
14. J.R. Johnson The Chumash sociopolitical groups on the Channel Islands in: S. McLendon J. Johnson (Eds) Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and Santa Monica Mountains, Report prepared for the Archaeology and Ethnography Program vol. 1 1999 National Park Service Washington, D.C. 51-66
15. J.R. Johnson T.W. Stafford Jr. H.O. Ajie D.P. Morris Arlington Springs revisited in: D. Browne K. Mitchell H. Chaney (Eds) Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium 2000 U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service Pacific OCS Region (CD publication) 541-545
16. D.J. Kennett The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society 2005 University of California Press Berkeley
17. D.J. Kennett, B.L. Ingram, Variability in AMS Determinations from Marine Shells in Coastal Southern California. Report on file at the Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, no date.
18. D.J. Kennett B.L. Ingram J.M. Erlandson P.L. Walker Evidence for temporal fluctuations in marine radiocarbon reservoir ages in the Santa Barbara Channel, southern California Journal of Archaeological Science 24 1997 1051-1059
19. 14C age between stratigraphically associated charcoal and marine shell from the Archaic period site of Kilometer 4, southern Peru: old wood or old water? Radiocarbon 44 2002 53-58
20. H.C. Koerper A Glycymeris shell bracelet from Orange County, California Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 32 2 & 3 1996 82-109
21. H.C. Koerper N. Whiney-Desautels A cowry shell artifact from Bolsa Chica: An example of prehistoric exchange Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 35 2 & 3 1999 81-95
22. H.C. Koerper A. Jull T. Linick L. Toolin A tandem accelerator mass spectrometry (TAMS) C-14 date for a Haliotis fishhook Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 24 4 1988 49-53
23. H.C. Koerper C. Prior R.E. Taylor R.O. Gibson Additional accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon assays on Haliotis fishhooks from CA-ORA-378 Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 17 1995 273-279
24. P.C. Orr Prehistory of Santa Rosa Island 1968 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Santa Barbara
25. L.M. Raab J. Porcasi K. Bradford A. Yatsko Debating cultural evolution: regional implications of fishing intensification at Eel Point, San Clemente Island Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 31 3 1995 3-27
26. T.C. Rick Red abalone bead production and exchange on California's Northern Channel Islands North American Archaeologist 2005 in press
27. T.C. Rick R.L. Vellanoweth J.M. Erlandson D.J. Kennett On the antiquity of the single-piece shell fishhook: AMS radiocarbon evidence from the southern California Coast Journal of Archaeological Science 29 2002 933-942
28. C.E. Rozaire, A Report on the Archaeological Investigations of Three California Channel Islands: Santa Barbara, Anacapa, and San Miguel, Report on file at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 1978.
29. R.A. Salls Prehistoric Fisheries of the California Bight, Ph.D. dissertation Department of Anthropology, University of California 1988 Ann Arbor Los Angeles, UMI
30. M.B. Schiffer Radiocarbon dating and the "old wood"; problem: the case of the Hohokam chronology Journal of Archaeological Science 13 1986 13-30
31. M. Schmidt Radiocarbon Dating New Zealand Prehistory Using Marine Shell BAR International Series 842 2000
32. J.K. Stein J.N. Deo L.S. Phillips Big sites-short time: Accumulation rates in archaeological sites Journal of Archaeological Science 30 2003 297-316
33. 14C age calibration program Radiocarbon 35 1993 215-230
34. M. Stuiver P.J. Reimer Calib 4.3 Radiocarbon Calibration Program 2000 2000 Quaternary Isotope Lab, University of Washington Seattle
35. M. Stuiver G.W. Pearson T. Braziunas Radiocarbon age calibration of marine samples back to 9000 CAL YR BP Radiocarbon 28 1986 980-1021
36. R.E. Taylor Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective 1987 Academic Press Orlando
37. R.L. Vellanoweth AMS radiocarbon dating and shell bead chronologies: middle Holocene trade and interaction in western North America Journal of Archaeological Science 28 2001 941-950
38. R.L. Vellanoweth M.R. Lambright J.M. Erlandson T.C. Rick Early New World maritime technologies: Sea grass cordage, shell beads, and a bone tool from Cave of the Chimneys, San Miguel Island, California, USA Journal of Archaeological Science 30 2003 1161-1173
39. R.L. Vellanoweth T.C. Rick J.M. Erlandson Middle and late Holocene maritime adaptations on northeastern San Miguel Island, California in: D. Browne K. Mitchell H. Chaney (Eds) Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium 2000 Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service Pacific OCS Region (CD publication) 607-614
40. D.R. Yesner, Human adaptation at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary (circa 13,000 to 8000 BP) in eastern Beringia, in: L.G. Straus, B.V. Eriksen, J.M. Erlandson, D.R. Yesner (Eds.), Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition, Plenum, New York, pp. 255-276.