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THE SOCIETY FOR PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGY, INC.
Dear SPA Jacob L. Grimm C-14 Award Applicant: Please complete one copy of the attached application form for each sample you wish to submit. Should you require more space for additional information, please append as attachment sheets. DO NOT SEND SAMPLES WITH THIS APPLICATION. Submissions must be reviewed prior to approval by the Jacob L. Grimm C-14 Award Review Committee. Applications will be processed as they are received. Submission deadline is normally two to three weeks prior to the next SPA Annual Meeting. Submit applications to: James T. Herbstritt
MicroSoft Word version of the Jacob L. Grimm
C-14 Application form and instruction.
Completing SPA’s Jacob L. Grimm C-14 Award Application 1. Provide the name, address and phone number of the person completing the application. Supply the applicant’s SPA Chapter affiliation, if applicable, and the calendar date of submission. 2. Include the name of the individual who collected the sample and the calendar date when the sample was obtained. 3. Give a brief description of methods used in extracting and storing the sample. Such information and questions might include: Using aluminum foil and/or a clean plastic bag to wrap and store the sample. Was the sample moist or dry when stored and was the sample cleaned of soil/root contaminants? Was the sample recovered through waterscreening, flotation using tap or stream water and was the sample hand picked from a soil matrix that contained other foreign associations unrelated to the principal occupation? Is there evidence of mineral leaching or presence of humus? Was smoking permitted on site and if so, to what extent? Was the sample treated with preservatives or fungicides and if so name the product? If the sample came from a plowed field were fertilizers used in the soils? Mention any other forms of possible contaminants to the sample. Explain any type of historic or other disturbances to the site and more importantly, to the sample’s context which may have had some affect regarding its integrity. 4. Include the sample’s provenience, such as site name and trinomial site designation, UTM coordinates, site elevation, nearest permanent water source, topographic setting, U.S.G.S. quadrangle map name and edition, site location for state, county and township, test unit and level and whether it is feature related. If from a feature give a brief description of it. 5. What is the stratigraphic context of the sample? Is it from the plowzone, a feature within a discrete soil zone or from an organic rich paleosol (A-horizon)? Was it deeply buried such as might occur on a site located within a floodplain, a site at the base of a colluvial hillslope or from deep within a rockshelter’s sediments? Does the site represent a single or multiple component occupation? 6. Are there associated diagnostic artifacts such as pottery, projectile points/knives or other stone tools? Also include here any existing radiocarbon dates . If applicable, name the laboratory and provide the calendar date when the sample(s) were assayed. If this information has been published, include the reference(s). Also, provide the known, or presumed , time range for the site in years before present (B.P.) or B.C./A.D. 7. Describe the cultural significance of the site. Is it a village, camp or quarry site with good in situ remains, etc. 8. Describe the environment of the site. Include setting (floodplain, terrace, upland bench, rockshelter etc.), type of vegetation (eg. conifer or mixed deciduous forest, open field, beach ridge etc.), soils (consult a U.S.D.A county soil survey for the soils specific to the site); the site’s bedrock geology and; water (name, nature and distance: eg. Susquehanna River at a distance of 100 meters or ephemeral springhead at a distance of 10 meters). 9. Sample material: Typically, this will be wood charcoal but may be something else such as wood, shell, bone, peat or some other organic substances. 10. Sample size (dry weight measured in grams, if possible). It is preferable that the sample be thoroughly dried prior to submission. If the sample is wood charcoal try to submit at least 20 grams because the radiocarbon laboratory will invariably have to remove contaminants such as rootlets and soil before the radiocarbon process begins. Samples other than wood charcoal will require a greater volume of the datable substance. Other materials such as bone will normally require more than 100 grams. When appropriate, consult the SPA Radiocarbon review committee for specific information on non-wood charcoal samples. NOTE: If the sample is small, the time required for assay will be longer, more expensive and potentially less accurate. Include any additional comments you may deem necessary concerning
the sample to be submitted. Doing so will we most helpful to the review committee
and the laboratory.
THE JACOB L. GRIMM CARBON-14 AWARD
THE SOCIETY for PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGY, INC.
Name ____________________________________________ 2. Name of Collector ___________________ Date of Collection______________
3. Describe briefly how the sample was collected, treated, and stored;
include possible sources of contamination (Was smoking permitted on site?
Was sample treated with preservation or fungicide? Please name product.):
4. Sample Provenience: Site Name ________________________________________ Site Number ___________
5. Stratigraphic context of the sample: 6. Associated diagnostic artifacts: 7. Describe the cultural significance of the site: 8. Describe the environmental setting of the site (Include the underlying
and overlying geologic formation, soil series, soil pH, etc.): 9. Sample material: ____ charcoal ____bone
____ wood ____peat 10. Sample size (dry weight in grams): _____________________________
11. Additional comments about the sample:
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