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Lab number
M-1548
Field number
CMC- 34
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
an island in the Ottawa River, about 120 m north of Lower Allumette (Westmouth) Lake, about 4.8 km downstream from Pembroke, Ontario, in Pontiac County, Outaouais region, Québec
Map sheet
31 F/14
Submitter
C.C. Kennedy
Date submitted
November 26, 0097
Measured Age
3060 ± 150
Normalized Age
3060 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Laurentian Archaic; Archaïque laurentien
Context
pit, apparently a hearth, 18-33 cm depth, the latter being the maximum depth of the pit
Comments
BkGg-11, Allumette Island-1: The site represents the late Vergennes Focus of the Laurentian Archaic tradition. It yielded 1012 copper artifacts, many of them distinctive of Old Copper culture. J.B. Griffin, commenting on the Michigan dates, noted that the result for M-1549 was much too young for Old Copper, and recommended that additional samples be analyzed. This need has been met by the Saskatchewan date which J.V. Wright considers acceptable for a late Vergennes component.

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