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Lab number
Beta-48303
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
in Spear Harbour, on the southern Labrador coast
Map sheet
3 D/05
Submitter
M.P. Stopp
Date submitted
June 26, 0097
Normalized Age
5070 ± 170
Significance
Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
Stratigraphic component
Component 1
Context
component 1, test pit yielding quartzite flakes
Comments
FcAv-4, Pardy: A small (15 sq m) Maritime Archaic component at an elevation of 12 m a.s.l. is dated by Beta-48303. A much larger (62,500 sq m) Palaeoeskimo component is situated at 15 m a.s.l. but has not been dated by radiocarbon.

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