CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION AND AMS RADIOCARBON AGE DETERMINATION OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 37 AT THOMAS JEFFERSON’S POPLAR FOREST, BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA

Author(s): Peter Kováčik; Linda Scott Cummings

Year: 2015

Summary

Site 37 lies on the property of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest in the city of Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. Prior to construction of a new entrance road a site was detected on the western bank of Machine Branch, a small drainage that runs between the Upper and Middle Fields (Jack Gary, personal communication July 29, 2015). Three charcoal samples from two test pits were submitted for identification and subsequent AMS radiocarbon age determination.

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CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION AND AMS RADIOCARBON AGE DETERMINATION OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 37 AT THOMAS JEFFERSON’S POPLAR FOREST, BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Peter Kováčik, Linda Scott Cummings. PRI Technical Report ,2015-075. 2015 ( tDAR id: 399373) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JD4Z48

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Keywords

Material
Charcoal

Site Name
Site 37 • Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest

Investigation Types
Ethnohistoric Research

General
15-075 • AMS Radiocarbon Analysis • Charcoal Identification • Thomas Jefferson

Geographic Keywords
Bedford County (County) • Forest City • Thomas Jefferson Poplar Forest • Virginia (State / Territory)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -79.915; min lat: 36.986 ; max long: -79.178; max lat: 37.661 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): PaleoResearch Institute

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