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Canada / ON / DjKp-___3 (Meek) / DIC-767
- Lab number
- DIC-767
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on an island in Lake of the Woods, Kenora District, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 52 E/10
- Submitter
- C.S. Reid
- Date submitted
- January 21, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1020 ± 135
- Significance
- Woodland, Laurel; Sylvicole
- Context
- adjacent to an ash lens in the Laurel stratum, immediately adjacent to the Selkirk ossuary but not disturbed by the excavation of the latter
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia, Alces alces, Rangifer tarandus, Cervus elaphus, Odocoileus sp, Ursus americanus, Canis sp, Procyon lotor, Lynx canadensis, Lutra canadensis, Castor canadensis, Marmota monax, Mephitis mephitis, Martes americana, Ondatra zibethicus; Aves; Reptilia; Pisces
- Additional information
- The faunal assemblage may contain elements of the Laurel, Blackduck, and Selkirk components.
- Comments
- DjKp-3, Meek: This is the largest prehistoric site found to date on Lake of the Woods, including over 1.5 hectares of habitation area, an ossuary about 8 m in diameter, and associated petroglyphs. It may have been the area's major Selkirk village and ceremonial centre in the 14th-15th centuries, and it also yielded the first positively identified Laurel house structure. Balmer presents the faunal remains as a single assemblage. Judging from the distribution of ceramics and the spread of radiocarbon dates, it is a time-averaged assemblage spanning the entire Woodland period. Brandzin-Low (1997: Table 7.7) considers only the earliest two dates (DIC-764, DIC-766) to provide the age of the Laurel component.