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Canada / NS / BdCx-5 (Reid) / I-217
- Lab number
- I-217
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Littorina littorea (id. by A.H. Clarke)
- Locality
- at Indian Point, St. Margaret's Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 D/12
- Submitter
- A.H. Clarke
- Date submitted
- July 7, 0097
- Measured Age
- 700 ± 225
- Normalized Age
- 1110 ± 235
- δ13C (per mil)
- -0.0
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récente
- Context
- shell heap
- Associated taxa
- Mollusca: Littorina littorea; see also S-153
- Additional information
- sample consisted of 12 shells, averaging 15 mm in height.
- Comments
- BdCx-5, Reid: This is a stratified prehistoric shell heap attributed to the Micmac. Clarke and Erskine note that the status of Littorina littorea and of Ceprea hortensis as indigenous to the Western Hemisphere was previously doubted. The presence of caribou bones, and crowded lines of growth in Mercenaria mercenaria, provide evidence that the climate was formerly colder than at present. It was considered on archaeological grounds that the site would have been occupied for not less than a century between AD 1200 and 1500.