Online Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Radiocarbon Database

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio Radiocarbon Dates

This database was provided by Dr. Fred A. Finney of Upper Midwest Archaeology, St. Joseph, Illinois.

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Site No.	Site Name	Feature and Stratigraphic Position	Material Dated	Archeological	Uncorrected C14 age		Uncorrected age		Lab. No.	Reference
				Culture	Years B.P.	S.D.	A.D. or B.C.	S.D.
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 8	Charcoal	Whittlesey	330	105	AD 1620	105	CWRU-2A (1)	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 8	Charcoal	Whittlesey	330	55	AD 1620	55	CWRU-2B	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 4	Charcoal	Whittlesey	305	55	AD 1645	55	CWRU-4	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 81/3, Area J, Sample 1	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	330	45	AD 1620	45	DIC-2393	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 81/3, Area J, Sample 2	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	360	45	AD 1590	45	DIC-2398	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Refuse Pit 2 (Northwest Edge, Gravel Ridge)	Charcoal	Whittlesey	300	100	AD 1650	100	M-2270	Brose 1994
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 12	Charcoal	Whittlesey	305	55	AD 1645	55	M-2271	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 1, SW half	Charcoal	Whittlesey	310	50	AD 1640	50	WIS-537	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 49	Charcoal	Whittlesey	380	55	AD 1570	55	WIS-538	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 23 (house floor lenses)	Charcoal	Whittlesey	410	55	AD 1540	55	WIS-539	Brose 1973
33Cu8	South Park	Feature 98 originating in Level 1	Charcoal	Whittlesey	950	65	AD 1000	65	WIS-576	Brose 1973
33Cu25	Kurtz	Feature 1 hearth	Wood Charcoal	Middle Historic	200	50	AD 1750	50	CRWU-64	Brose et al. 1981:257-258
33Cu46	Sweet Corn	Feature 8	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	650	50	AD 1300	50	Beta-109157	Finney 1997
33Cu65	Vaughn	Level 2, XU6 (TL-date)	Grit-tempered Sherd	Whittlesey	280	30	AD 1670	30	Alpha-959	Zalesky 1986
33Cu65	Vaughn	Feature 4 wall (TL-date)	Grit-tempered Sherd	Whittlesey	680	90	AD 1270	90	Alpha-960	Zalesky 1986
33Cu65	Vaughn	Level 1, XU5/6 hearth	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	190	60	AD 1760	60	Beta-8956	Zalesky 1986
33Cu65	Vaughn	Feature 1	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	700	50	AD 1250	50	Beta-8957	Zalesky 1986
33Cu65	Vaughn	Feature 1	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	410	50	AD 1540	50	Beta-8958	Zalesky 1986
33Cu402	Plateau Picnic	Feature 1	Wood Charcoal	Late Archaic	2900	60	950 BC	60	Beta-109156	Finney 1997
no #	William Knapp House	Feature 1 roasting oven in TU 2	Charcoal	Whittlesey	380	70	AD 1570	70	Beta-96184	MWAC files
33Su12	Lee Village	Refuse pit excavated by Steve Fuller	Charcoal	Whittlesey	unknown	unknown	AD 1250-1300		unknown	1975 Bush OAI form
33Su87	Columbia Road Village	Feature 77-3 (Feature 1?)	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1090	85	AD 860	85	DIC-2605	Belovich and Brose 1982
33Su87	Columbia Road Village	Feature 77-5 (Feature 1?)	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1160	60/50	AD 790	60/50	DIC-2606	Belovich and Brose 1982
33Su92	Greenwood Village	Feature 10, Sec. C., 82 cmbs, TU 19 and 20	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1260	80	AD 690	80	Beta-10715	Belovich and Brose 1992
33Su92	Greenwood Village	Feature 10, Sec. D., 100 cmbs, TU 19 and 20	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1500	60	AD 450	60	Beta-10716	Belovich and Brose 1992
33Su92	Greenwood Village	Feature 10, Sec. D., 101 cmbs, TU 19 and 20	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1020	70	AD 930	70	DIC-3072	Belovich and Brose 1992
33Su92	Greenwood Village	Feature 10, Sec. B., 77 cmbs, TU 19 and 20; TL	Grit-tempered Sherd	Late Woodland	1180	180	AD 770	180	Alpha-1484	Belovich and Brose 1992
33Su92	Greenwood Village	Feature 10, Sec. B., 82 cmbs, TU 19 and 20; TL	Grit-tempered Sherd	Late Woodland	1200	200	AD 750	200	Alpha-1485	Belovich and Brose 1992
33Su92	Greenwood Village	Level 3 (26-36 cmbs), north half, TU 10; TL	Limestone-tempered Sherd	Late Woodland	1110	170	AD 840	170	Alpha-1486	Belovich and Brose 1992
33Su99	Hines Hill Conf. Center	Feature 1 pit in TU 3	Charcoal	Whittlesey	890	40	AD 1060	40	Beta-96185	MWAC files
33Su121	Schmidt (Everett Church)	Feature 1 hearth/oven, 40 cmbs, CM sherds	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1800	50	AD 150	50	Beta-147192	Bauermeister 2002
33Su121	Schmidt	Pit	Wood Charcoal	Archaic	3800	40	1850 BC	40	Beta-160193	Bauermeister 2002
33Su121	Schmidt	Linear feature	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	650	40	AD 1300	40	Beta-160194	Bauermeister 2002
33Su136	Kepner House	Feature 23, TU2, 50-60 cmbs FCR cluster	Wood Charcoal	Late Archaic	3850	100	1900 BC	100	Beta-147366	MWAC files
33Su138	Stanford Knoll	Cuyahoga Cordmarked sherd (TL-date)	Grit-tempered Sherd	Late Woodland	1330	150	AD 620	150	Alpha-2621	Lee 1986
33Su138	Stanford Knoll	Leimbach Thick sherd from ST 31, F. 6 (TL-date)	Grit-tempered Sherd	Early Woodland	2850	300	900 BC	300	Alpha-2622	Lee 1986
33Su138	Stanford Knoll	Feature 1 - Flint Ridge bladelets & McGraw CM	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1650	60	AD 300	60	Beta-15011	Lee 1986
33Su138	Stanford Knoll	Feature 11	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1780	60	AD 170	60	Beta-15012	Lee 1986
no #	Szalay House	Feature 6 postmold with MW ceramics and mica	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1770	60	AD 180	60	Beta-122443	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Szalay House	Feature 13 postmold with many MW ceramics	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1810	60	AD 140	60	Beta-122444	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Szalay House	Feature 4 postmold with MW ceramics	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1740	60	AD 210	60	Beta-122445	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Szalay House	Feature 5 roasting oven has MW ceramics and mica	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1700	60	AD 250	60	Beta-122446	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Szalay House	Feature 5 roasting oven has MW ceramics and mica	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1660	60	AD 290	60	Beta-122447	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Szalay House	Feature 5 roasting oven has MW ceramics and mica	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1680	60	AD 270	60	Beta-122448	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Szalay House	Feature 22, 35-40 cmbs, MW bladelet, CM sherds	Charred nut hull (AMS)	Middle Woodland	1620	40	AD 330	40	Beta-147367	Richner and Volf 2000; Volf 2000
no #	Point Farm House	Feature 1 - roasting oven	Wood Charcoal	Middle Woodland	1680	60	AD 270	60	Beta-96182	Richner, Volf, and Bauermeister 2001
no #	Botzum Farm House	Feature 1 (burned area) in TU 1 at 50 cmbs	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	630	50	AD 1320	50	Beta-96183	MWAC files
no #	CUVA 1997-1	Roasting oven eroding into river	Wood Charcoal	Late Historic	170	50	AD 1780	50	Beta-119018	MWAC files
no #	CUVA 1997-2	Feature 2 - roasting oven in TU 1	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1250	60	AD 700	60	Beta-119019	MWAC files
no #	CUVA 1997-2	Feature 2 - roasting oven in TU 1	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1060	60	AD 890	60	Beta-119020	MWAC files
no #	CUVA 1997-2	N103-105, E95-96, roasting oven at 180 cmbs	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1250	60	AD 700	60	Beta-147191	MWAC files
no #	CUVA 1997-2	N103-105, E95-96, roasting oven at 180 cmbs	Wood Charcoal	Late Woodland	1270	70	AD 680	70	Beta-147365	MWAC files

The following sites are close to CUVA.

Site No.	Site Name	Feature and Stratigraphic Position	Material Dated	Archeological	Uncorrected C14 age		Uncorrected age		Lab. No.	Reference
				Culture	Years B.P.	S.D.	A.D. or B.C.	S.D.
33Cu7	Tuttle Hill (Pemco)	Pemco interchange, pit salvaged under midden	Bone	Whittlesey	900	100	AD 1050	100	DIC-14	Sumodi 1974
33Cu34	Squaw Rockshelter	Cultural Level II - Kirk, St. Albans, lanceolate	Charcoal	Archaic	9480	160	7530 BC	160	DIC-586	Brose 1989
33Cu34	Squaw Rockshelter	Cultural Level I - Brewerton	Charcoal	Archaic	7450	85	5500 BC	85	DIC-321	Brose 1989
33Cu224	Staas	Feature 116 (45-49 cm)	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	610	70	AD 1340	70	Beta-28995	Belovich 1986
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 4	Charcoal	Archaic	3980	130	2030 BC	130	DIC-316	Prufer et al. 1989
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 5	Charcoal	Archaic	3340	65	1390 BC	65	DIC-317	Prufer et al. 1989
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 6	Charcoal	between EW & LW	1750	375	AD 200	375	DIC-318	Prufer et al. 1989
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 1 with Fayette Thick sherds	Charcoal	Early Woodland	1705	75	AD 245	75	UGA-1528	Prufer et al. 1989
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 7	Charcoal	Early Woodland	2095	95	145 BC	95	UGA-1529	Prufer et al. 1989
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 8	Charcoal	Early Woodland	1795	265	AD 155	265	UGA-1530	Prufer et al. 1989
33Su18	Krill Cave	Feature 1 with Whittlesey sherds	Charcoal	Whittlesey	405	80	AD 1545	80	UGA-1531	Prufer et al. 1989
no #	Gillie Rockshelter	Shallow hearth with Whittlesey sherds	Wood Charcoal	Whittlesey	1745	130	AD 205	130	GX-2455	Bernhardt 1973


Key:
EW	Early Woodland
MW	Middle Woodland
LW	Late Woodland
XU	Excavation Unit
TU	Test Unit
CM	Cordmarked
Notes:	1. More than one date has been published for CWRU-2A. The age of this sample remains uncertain because the CWRU laboratory never submitted their dating results to the journal Radiocarbon.
	2. All dates in this table were backchecked against the published results in the journal Radiocarbon whenever possible.
	3. Middle Historic and Late Historic used above follow definitions in Quimby (1966).

References Cited

Bauermeister, Ann
2002 Archeological Inventory and Evaluative Testing for Proposed Developments at 33SU121 Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Summit County, Ohio. Preliminary Report. Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Belovich, Stephanie J.
1986 The Staas Site (33Cu224): 1985 Excavations. Archaeological Research Reports No. 66. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.

Belovich, Stephanie J., and David S. Brose
1982 Survey and Evaluative Testing within the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area: Sites 33Su87 and 33Su102. Archaeology Research Reports No. 40. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.

1992 Late Woodland Fortifications in Northern Ohio: The Greenwood Village Site. Kirtlandia 47:3-23. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.

Bernhardt, Jack E.
1973 Gillie Rockshelter: A Late Woodland Phase in Summit County, Ohio. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Kent State University, Kent.

Brose, David S.
1973 Preliminary Analysis of Recent Excavations at the South Park Site, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The Pennsylvania Archaeologist 43(1):25-52.

1989 The Squaw Rockshelter (33CU34): A Stratified Archaic Deposit in Cuyahoga County. Kirtlandia 44:17-53. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.

1994 The South Park Village Site and the Late Prehistoric Whittlesey Tradition of Northeast Ohio. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 20. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.

Brose, David S., Stephanie Belovich, Michael W. Brooslin, Robert Burns, John Hall, Harold Haller, Christopher Pierce, and Carl C. Ubbelohde
1981 Archaeological Investigations in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. Archaeological Research Reports No. 30:1-586. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.

Finney, Fred A.
1997 Archaeological Investigations at Selected Sites in the Cuyahoga River Valley, Cuyahoga and Summit Counties, Ohio. Reports of Investigation No. 467. Institute for Minnesota Archaeology, Minneapolis.

Lee, Alfred M.
1986 Excavations at the Stanford Knoll Site, Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, Summit County, Ohio. Archaeological Research Reports No. 65(1). Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland.

Prufer, Olaf H., Dana A. Long, and Donald J. Metzger
1989 Krill Cave: A Stratified Rockshelter in Summit County, Ohio. Kent State Research Papers in Archaeology No. 8. Kent State University Press, Kent.

Richner, Jeffrey J., and William J. Volf
2000 Front Yard Archeology: Hopewellian Occupation at the Szalay Site. Hopewell Archaeology Newsletter 4(1):10-11. Copy on file, Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Richner, Jeffrey J., William J. Volf, and Ann Bauermeister
2001 Archeological Inventory and Evaluative Test Excavations at the Historic Point Farm, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. Draft manuscript version of a Technical Report. Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sumodi, A. J.
1974 Radioisotopes Laboratory Radiocarbon Date List I. Radiocarbon 16(2):166-177.

Volf, William J.
2000 The Szalay Site: Hopewellian Occupation in Northeastern Ohio. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Zalesky, James M.
1986 Archeological Investigation at the Vaughn Site (33Cu65), Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, Ohio. Occasional Studies in Anthropology No. 18. Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska.