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Canada / ON / AkGv-___8 (Parsons) / WAT-2872
- Lab number
- WAT-2872
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on a broad promontory overlooking Black Creek, a tributary of Humber River, City of North York, Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 30 M/13
- Submitter
- R.F. Williamson
- Date submitted
- February 16, 2006
- Normalized Age
- 460 ± 65
- Significance
- Late Woodland; Sylvicole supérieur
- Context
- house 3, feature 113
- Associated taxa
- cultigen: Zea mays 505, Phaseolus vulgaris 5, Cucurbita pepo 3, Helianthus annuus 29, Nicotiana rustica 6; Flora (whole site): Rubus sp 1133, Fragaria sp 67, Prunus sp 2, Prunus nigra 4, Prunus pensylvanica 2, Crataegus sp 10, Sambucus sp 27, Solanum sp 17, Chenopodium sp 26, Polygonum sp 2, Polygonum erectum 6, Portulaca oleracea 3, Elymus sp or Agropyron sp 1, Zizania aquatica 1, Gramineae 15,
- Additional information
- For a list of faunal remains, see WAT-2869.
- Comments
- AkGv-8, Parsons: The artifact assemblage from this late Iroquoian site suggests that the village was occupied around AD 1450. Three radiocarbon dates are consistent with this age, while one is anomalously old. An anomalously young date may reflect contamination by European cultigens. Fauna: (Flora) Rhus typhina 10, Lepidium sp, Diervilla lonicera, Aralia sp, Ostrya virginiana, Typha latifolia, Acer sp, Fagus grandifolia, Fraxinus sp, Pinus strobus, Ulmus americana, Quercus sp, Populus sp or Salix sp, Tilia americana, Carya sp, Juglans sp