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Canada / NS / BcDc-4 (Eisenhauer) / S-974
- Lab number
- S-974
- Field number
- CMC- 746
- Material dated
- oak? charcoal; charbon de chêne?
- Taxa dated
- Quercus sp.? (10 g)
- Locality
- Mahone Bay, 2.4 km west of Indian Point, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 21 A/07
- Submitter
- D.L. Keenlyside
- Date submitted
- July 4, 0097
- Measured Age
- 610 ± 95
- Normalized Age
- 610 ± 95
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récente
- Context
- 4.6 x 1.5 m area beneath shell underlain by black soil and ash 5-15 cm deep
- Associated taxa
- Flora: Quercus sp?
- Comments
- BcDc-4, Eisenhauer: This shell-heap is 7.6 x 24 m in extent, situated on a small knoll adjacent to a salt marsh. Wintemberg interpreted the site as representing a single component, and the cultural affiliation is thought to be antecedent to ethnohistoric Micmac.