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Canada / ON / AfHd-___1 (Dewaele) / I-6412
- Lab number
- I-6412
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the Norfolk Sand Plain, Oxford County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 40 I/15
- Submitter
- W.A. Fox
- Date submitted
- January 26, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 855 ± 90
- Significance
- Late Woodland, Glen Meyer; Sylvicole supérieur
- Context
- pit feature 17, trench 5
- Associated taxa
- see I-6411
- Comments
- AfHd-1, Dewaele: This is a Glen Meyer village of four or more houses and a 2-3 row palisade, covering about 0.8 hectares. It has received limited excavation. Cooper and Savage (1994: 25) report that two preliminary analyses report on material recovered from excavations between 1967 and 1971. Some features were screened, but none was floated. Burns' sample, from several units, was 52% fish, 23% mammal, and 21% avian, with 12% thermally altered. White-tailed deer was probably the most important source of meat. Fish were a dietary staple, and passenger pigeon appear to have been intensively exploited by nest-robbing of the young. Coary examined specimens from one midden, and her findings are consistent with those of Burns.