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Canada / ON / BcGw-__10 (Dunsmore) / GSC-2663
- Lab number
- GSC-2663
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- possibly Castanea dentata (11.1 g, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- adjacent to a large tributary of Willow Creek, 265 m asl, Vespra Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 D/05
- Submitter
- J.R. Hunter
- Date submitted
- April 13, 0097
- Measured Age
- 620 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 620 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Late Woodland, Huron; Sylvicole supérieur
- Context
- Level 4 in undisturbed midden, 30 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Marmota monax, Canis sp, Odocoileus virginianus; Aves: Ectopistes migratorius; Pisces: Perca flavescens
- Comments
- BcGw-10, Dunsmore: GSC-2663 reflects an early component of the prehistoric Huron. Cooper and Savage (1994: 28) report that 1977 excavations of one text square yielded 249 well preserved, analytically useful specimens, with recovery aided by 1.6 mm mesh screening. Complete site excavation in 1989, including flotation, produced about 900 more specimens. Preliminary work on these reveals that two-thirds are fish, there are few artiodactyls and many small mammals; fish and bird diversity are high.