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Canada / NS / BiCu-1 (Debert) / P-743
- Lab number
- P-743
- 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
- 10452 ± 128
- Normalized Age
- 10452 ± 128
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoindian; Paléoindien
- Context
- hearth, feature 4
- Associated taxa
- Flora: Picea sp
- 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.