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- Lab number
- Y-1292
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- 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
- Submitter
- R. Pearson
- Date submitted
- July 4, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1900 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 1900 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland; Sylvicole
- Context
- 61 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Castor canadensis, Erethizon dorsatum, Canis familiaris, Vulpes vulpes, Ursus americanus, Phoca groenlandica, Halichoerus grypus, Odocoileus sp, Alces alces, Rangifer tarandus?; Pisces, Gadus sp, Myoxocephalus sp; Mollusca
- 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.