Cairn Burials of the California Deserts

1 July 1978

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 43 (3) , 444-448
https://doi.org/10.2307/279401

Abstract

The Yuha cairn burial from southeastern California is said to be more than 21,000 years old, based on radiocarbon dates and a Th-230 date obtained on soil carbonate. The burial itself is undated. Several other cairn burials are known from the California deserts, and these are dated from 5000 B.P. to historic times. Until the Yuha burial itself is dated, one must consider that it may belong to this more recent pattern of disposal of the dead.

Keywords

CALIFORNIA DESERTS
YUHA BURIAL
DATE OBTAINED
SOIL CARBONATE
RADIOCARBON DATES
YUHA CAIRN

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Antiquity of man in America indicated by radiometric dates on the Yuha burial site
Nature, 1976