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- Lab number
- TO-5307
- Material dated
- cultigen; cultigène
- Taxa dated
- Zea mays cupules
- Locality
- on a 10 ha floodplain bar of Grand River, about 30 km from the river mouth, Haldimand County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 30 L/13
- Submitter
- G.W. Crawford
- Date submitted
- March 2, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 1570 ± 90
- Significance
- Late Woodland, Princess Point; Sylvicole supérieur
- Context
- Area A, unit 729-671, paleosol II, 80 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- cultigen: Zea mays
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- AfGx-3, Grand Banks: Three site areas exhibit variations in stratigraphy. Area A and the southern half of Area B have up to 2.5 m of unconsolidated sediment resting on bedrock and containing two paleosols. The lower paleosol, PI, contains evidence of a Late Archaic or Early Woodland occupation, and the upper paleosol, PII, was occupied by people of the Princess Point complex. Area C and the northern half of Area B have a somewhat compressed version of this sequence that has been strongly affected by plowing. There is negligible separation of the Princess Point and Late Archaic/Early Woodland components, and there is also a historic component with white clay pipe fragments. Most of the dates pertain to the Princess Point component, and they provide some of the earliest dates for corn horticulture in northeastern North America. Cooper and Savage (1994: 37) report that all material from the 1993 and 1994 test excavations was floated. However, faunal preservation was very poor as most bones were fragmentary and many thermally altered. From 1993 work, classifiable bones were almost entirely fish.