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Lab number
P-740
Material dated
spruce charcoal; charbon d'épinette
Taxa dated
Picea sp. (id. by Forest Products Lab., U.S.D.A., Madison)
Locality
16 km west of Truro, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Map sheet
11 E/06
Submitter
G.F. MacDonald
Date submitted
July 6, 0097
Measured Age
7671 ± 92
Normalized Age
7671 ± 92
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoindian, anomalous, young; Paléoindien, anormal, jeune
Context
hearth, feature 3
Associated taxa
Flora: Picea sp
Additional information
This sample is presumed to include modern material.
Comments
BiCu-1, Debert: This large Palaeoindian habitation site produced a long series of very consistent radiocarbon dates. The two youngest dates were not associated with cultural materials. Of the other 13 dates, only one is anomalously recent.

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