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Lab number
S-1604
Field number
CMC-1015
Material dated
marine shell; coquillage
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
700 ± 45
Normalized Age
1110 ± 85
δ13C (per mil)
-0.0
Significance
Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récente
Context
Test pit 3, Level 2, 40-42 cm depth, in shell, gravel and red brown silt
Comments
BkCq-10, Cox/Swanson: This is a seasonally occupied shell midden, probably ancestral Micmac. Ceramic comparisons suggest an age of 1050-550 BP.

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