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Lab number
S-617
Field number
CMC- 448
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
at the edge of a stream flowing into the mouth of the St. Croix River, near a Sandy Point northeast of St. Croix, Passamaquoddy Bay, Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Map sheet
21 G/03
Submitter
D. Sanger
Date submitted
July 4, 0097
Measured Age
1720 ± 335
Normalized Age
1720 ± 335
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Woodland, anomalous, old; Sylvicole, anormal, vieux
Stratigraphic component
Housepit 2
Context
bottom of Level 3 in housepit 2, N21.0-21.25/W27.8-28.0, 30 cm depth
Additional information
This small sample required dilution with dead gas for counting.
Comments
BgDs-6, Sand Point: This is an early shell midden site, up to 84 cm deep, with late Archaic points and rocker dentate ceramics. In 1962, Pearson (1970) excavated 34.8 sq m and collected Y-1292. J. Lavoie conducted additional work for David Sanger in 1970 when S-617 and S-618 were collected from Housepit 2, thought to be one of the earlier housepits in the area. These two dates should have been more similar to one another, but S-617 was a very small sample that required dilution with dead gas for counting. Although Y-1292 overlaps with the large error of S-617, it may date an older part of the midden. Sanger is inclined to ignore S-617 in favour of the other three dates on housepit 2. Faunal remains from the two excavations were studied by different analysts and are listed separately with the radiocarbon dates. Both faunal assemblages probably represent greater time spans than implied by the dates themselves.

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