Dating stone arrangements using luminescence: More data from the northern Great Plains. (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Feathers, James K.; Aaberg, Stephen; Chase, Joshua; Kennedy, Margaret; Peterson, Lynelle; Reeves, Brian; Wagers, Scott
• Is Part Of: Plains anthropologist. Volume 67:Number 263(2022)
• Page Start: 297
• Page End: 322
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: tipi rings -- luminescence -- rock dating -- sediment dating -- Northern Plains; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Periodicals; Great Plains -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 306.0978
• DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2100618
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0032-0447

Abstract

Abstract : Luminescence dating of rocks and sediments associated with various anthropogenic rock arrangements has the potential to provide age information for these hard-to-date features. This study applies infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) to sediments under rocks and to the rocks themselves from tipi rings and other features from the northern Plains. Dates are provided for 27 sediment and 5 rock samples from 7 archaeological sites in Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan, ranging in age from 0.20 to 4.35 ka. Most of the ages are consistent with one another and with other dating evidence but some discrepancies show the complexity involved in this kind of dating.