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Lab number
I-13098
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
Big Otter Creek, Norfolk County, Ontario
Map sheet
40 I/16
Submitter
W.A. Fox
Date submitted
March 14, 0097
Normalized Age
1100 ± 80
Significance
Late Woodland, Glen Meyer, anomalous, old; Sylvicole supérieur, anormal, vieux
Context
Feature 409
Associated taxa
see I-13097
Comments
AfHc-2, Elliott: This palisaded Glen Meyer village of 24 houses covers <0.5 ha. Cooper and Savage (1994: 29) report that salvage excavation of the threatened north portion of the site, actually three villages, yielded 29272 faunal specimens of which 68% were bony fish, 27% mammal, 3% avian, with 39% identified below the class level. Identification of 73 species, all within their current ranges, points to thorough exploitation of local fauna. Evidence appears for occupation during all seasons of the year. Some faunal elements may have had ceremonial significance. Among 60 artifacts there are bone beads, antler tools, debitage, and a comb, pointed and polished bones, drilled turtle shell, and modified beaver incisors.

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