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- Lab number
- WAT-23079
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- ridge overlooking the Ausable River, Middlesex County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 40 P/04
- Submitter
- J.A. Fisher
- Date submitted
- June 29, 0099
- Normalized Age
- 4000 ± 90
- Significance
- Late Archaic, Broadpoint; Archaïque supérieur
- Context
- Grid A, south end, Feature 6E
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Sciuridae (3 spp.), Odocoileus virginianus
- Comments
- AgHk-16, Adder Orchard: Bill Fox and Ian Kenyon obtained two dates from test pits at this site. Kenyon notes that I-12481 corresponds to the Early-Middle Woodland transition, but no pottery was found; the discrepancy is unexplained. A 1989 excavation uncovered 25 features in Grid A, the northern concentration, and two features in Grid B. Three more dates were obtained from the Waterloo laboratory. Cooper and Savage (1994: 1) report that excavation of ca. 2% of this disturbed 5000 sq m site yielded only 21 faunal specimens from three screened features and none from the flotated fraction. All were mammal, and their association with the Archaic occupation is uncertain.