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Alan
Williams
Fenner School of Environment and Society
Australian National University
Canberra
ACT 0200
Australia
Record ID | 10222 |
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Site | Morass Mound 33 |
IBRA Region | Victoria Midlands |
Longitude | 142.86 |
Latitude | -37.33 |
Site Type | Earth mound |
Lab Code | ANU-4321 |
Age | Modern (98.1 +/- 1.2%) |
Date Issues | Date not associated with human activity, or is problematic for time-series analysis - see Notes |
Material | Charcoal |
Context | Pit C |
Method | Radiocarbon |
Data pertinent for time-series analysis or calibration | Unusuable |
Open or closed site | Closed |
Directly related to occupation? | N |
Source | Williams, 1985 cit. Bird & Frankel, 1991 (Full bibliographic references are available from the Downloads page) |
Additional Data Issues | Information within this entry has been inferred by authors - see Notes |
Notes | A study (Bird & Frankel, 1991) using radiometric dates of southwest Victoria as a proxy for occupation/activity. The paper concludes that late Holocene intensification, at least from a social perspective perspective, was not the case. However, the paper does show increasing numbers of dates (n=80) in the late Holocene. Interesting features of the study include an apparent hiatus between 6-7ka and the appearance of earth mounds only in the last 2.5ka. Earth mounds have several different interpretations, including house foundations and/or a byproduct of repeated visitation and cooking and/or through collapse of sod/turf structures. |