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Locality: at the edge of a stream flowing into the mouth of the St. Croix River, near a Sandy Point northeast of St. Croix, Passamaquoddy Bay, Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Map sheet: 21 G/03

Significance: Woodland; Sylvicole
Stratigraphic component: Housepit 2
Context: Level 10 in housepit 2, N21.0-21.25/W27.8-28.0, 70 cm depth
Associated taxa: Mammalia: Tamias striatus, Castor canadensis, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Ondatra zibethicus, Erethizon dorsatum, Alces alces, Rangifer tarandus, Odocoileus sp, Phoca vitulina, Phoca groenlandica, Halichoerus grypus, cf. Cystophora sp, Ursus americanus, Procyon lotor, Lutra canadensis, Mustela vison, Canis familiaris, Vulpes vulpes, Lynx rufus, Homo sapiens; Aves Reptilia Amphibia Pisces Mollusca

Additional information: The faunal assemblage represents all bones recovered in 1970, not merely those from Housepit 2.
Comments: BgDs-6, Sand Point: This is an early shell midden site, up to 84 cm deep, with late Archaic points and rocker dentate ceramics. In 1962, Pearson (1970) excavated 34.8 sq m and collected Y-1292. J. Lavoie conducted additional work for David Sanger in 1970 when S-617 and S-618 were collected from Housepit 2, thought to be one of the earlier housepits in the area. These two dates should have been more similar to one another, but S-617 was a very small sample that required dilution with dead gas for counting. Although Y-1292 overlaps with the large error of S-617, it may date an older part of the midden. Sanger is inclined to ignore S-617 in favour of the other three dates on housepit 2. Faunal remains from the two excavations were studied by different analysts and are listed separately with the radiocarbon dates. Both faunal assemblages probably represent greater time spans than implied by the dates themselves. Fauna: Aves, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Clangula hyemalis; Reptilia, Chelydra sp; Amphibia, Ranidae; Pisces, Gadus sp, Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus; Mollusca

Canada / NB / BgDs-6 (Sand Point = Sandy Point) / S-618