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U-series isotope data used to date a 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, U.S.A.

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Publication Date
Time Period
2011
Time Period
2016

Citation

Paces, J.B., 2019, U-series isotope data used to date a 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, U.S.A.: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7HD7SW7.

Summary

This dataset includes tables with physical information and isotopic data that are used to calculate uranium-series ages (230Th/U method) and initial 234U/238U activity ratios on a suite of mastodon bones from the Cerutti Mastodon site near San Diego, CA area.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
James B. Paces, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
James B. Paces
Metadata Contact :
James B. Paces, U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
SDC Data Owner :
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

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Data_release_for_A_130_000-year-old_archaeological_site_in_southern_California_U_S_A_(RECONCILED).xml
“Metadata file”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		17.47 KB application/fgdc+xml
CeruttiMastodon_Useries_DataDictionary (RECONCILED).csv
“Data Dictionary” 		8.58 KB text/csv
CeruttiMastodon_Useries_SpecimenInfo (RECONCILED).csv
“Specimen information” 		756 Bytes text/csv
CeruttiMastodon_Useries_Data (RECONCILED).csv
“Isotope data” 		11.25 KB text/csv
CeruttiMastodon_iDAD_Predicted Ratios.csv
“iDAD model results” 		2.61 KB text/csv
CeruttiMastodon_iDAD_PDFvalues.csv
“iDAD model results” 		7.2 KB text/csv
CeruttiMastodon_iDAD_Age_and_Initial.csv
“iDAD model results” 		287 Bytes text/csv

Purpose

This dataset accompanies the paper 'A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, U.S.A', published in the scientific journal, Nature. Data were obtained to determine minimum ages for death and burial of mastodon bones that show evidence that site was used to process bone material by paleolithic humans.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/F7HD7SW7

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