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Table 7 Early and late dates for sites based on TL and radiocarbon dates

From: Thermoluminescence and radiocarbon dating of pre-colonial ceramics and organic midden material from the US Virgin Islands: outline for a revised chronology

	No. TL-dates	Early date	Late date	No. RC dates	Early date	Late date
Magens Bay	22	860 CE	1441 CE	12	508 CE	1523 CE
Krum Bay	15	337 CE	497 CE	8	599 BCE	717 CE
Spratt Hall	44	553 CE	1534 CE	5	418 BCE	1708 CE
Richmond	20	234 BCE	1506 CE	0	N/A	N/A
Prosperity	3	764 CE	1679 CE	0	N/A	N/A
Coral Bay	15	490 CE	1337 CE	6	653 CE	1166 CE
Lt Cruz Bay	20	171 CE	1251 CE	6	408 BCE	884 CE

Two outliers are not included in this list, KLR-11997 from Krum Bay and KLR-12047 from Spratt Hall. No radiocarbon dates were collected or sampled from Richmond and Prosperity

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