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- Lab number
- Beta-57996
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mya arenaria
- Locality
- on the southern shore of the Southwestern Island, Bliss Islands, Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick
- Map sheet
- 21 G/02
- Submitter
- D.W. Black
- Date submitted
- November 12, 0097
- Measured Age
- 250 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 680 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- 1.4
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récent
- Context
- unit 3, shell midden
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Castor canadensis; Mollusca: Mya arenaria
- Comments
- BgDr-61, Pintlowes Cove: This is a small, narrow strip of shell midden in which the main occupation layer consists of organic soil mixed with broken clam shells. A few lithic specimens and a beaver tooth were recovered, and it is interpreted as a single prehistoric component.