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Canada / NS / BkCq-10 (Cox/Swanson) / S-1602
- Lab number
- S-1602
- Field number
- CMC-1013
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (5.5 g)
- Locality
- on a headland, 1-3 m asl, on the west bank of the mouth of Caribou River, 9 km north-northwest of Pictou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 E/15
- Submitter
- D.L. Keenlyside
- Date submitted
- July 4, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1420 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 1420 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récente
- Context
- Test pit 2, Level 4, 22-24 cm depth
- Comments
- BkCq-10, Cox/Swanson: This is a seasonally occupied shell midden, probably ancestral Micmac. Ceramic comparisons suggest an age of 1050-550 BP.