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- Lab number
- GSC-2906
- Field number
- 79-GS-32
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mya arenaria (id. by D.R. Grant)
- Locality
- Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 20 O/16
- Submitter
- D.R. Grant
- Date submitted
- July 22, 0099
- Normalized Age
- 1570 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- 2.8
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- shell refuse heap with charcoal, bone, jasper flakes and worked stones, 2.9 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mollusca: Mya arenaria
- Additional information
- 46.5 g, three valves treated with an acid leach to remove 10% of the outer material.
- Comments
- AkDm-no #, Bunker Island: This site is being exposed by wave erosion on a low bench on the flank of a drumlin known as Bunker Island, in Yarmouth Harbour. The date offers indirect control on the rate of modern rise of tide level in that the site, despite its youthfulness and obviously much larger original size, it is now almost wholly consumed by the sea.