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Lab number
Beta-43148
Material dated
charred plant remains; restes de plantes carbonisés
Taxa dated
Betula sp. bark
Locality
on Skull Island, a small island southwest of Shediac Island, Westmorland County, New Brunswick
Map sheet
21 I/07
Submitter
K. Leonard
Date submitted
October 6, 0097
Normalized Age
680 ± 70
Significance
Woodland; Sylvicole
Context
bark lining of burial pit
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Homo sapiens; Flora: Betula sp
Comments
CbDd-1, Skull Island: This site contained a late Woodland cremation burial pit attributed to late prehistoric Mi'kmaq. Historic bones of uncertain affiliation have also been found, elsewhere on the island. All prehistoric, cremated bones have been reburied. In view of diagnostic artifact associations, Leonard prefers the older of two dates on birch bark that lined the cremation pit.

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