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Lab number
S-895
Field number
CMC- 606
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
at the extreme northeast end of Allumette Island near the foot of the Paquette Rapids, about 1.6 km northeast of Missoula, Pontiac County, Outaouais region, Québec
Map sheet
31 F/15
Submitter
C.C. Kennedy
Date submitted
December 3, 0097
Measured Age
2040 ± 70
Normalized Age
2040 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Middle Woodland; Sylvicole moyen
Context
hearth, sq. T3C, in the upper cultural stratum, 15-35 cm depth
Comments
BlGf-2, Hynes: The site is about 2 m above the Ottawa River. Except for hearths, the material in the upper cultural stratum is buried 5-22 cm deep and consists of Middle Woodland pottery, scrapers, a flake knife, and notched projectile points including one Robbins-like point. The pottery, with exterior nodes on some rims, and relatively few cases of interior channeling, appears to have greater Hopewellian influence than most Middle Woodland pottery seen thus far in the Ottawa valley. S-895 should date sherds with exterior nodes and notched rims, with dentate stamping on the exterior and rocker stamping on the interior. GSC-2054 is 430 years earlier than the earliest of previously published dates for Initial Woodland sites in the Ottawa valley (S-578: 2440 +/- 75 BP, Constance Bay site, Ontario). The lower cultural stratum, 30 cm or more deeper, contains no pottery and has not yielded diagnostic artifacts.

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