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Canada / NL / EiBf-2 (Forteau Point) / P-691
- Lab number
- P-691
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- 200 m inland from the north shore of a long sandy point extending into Forteau Bay, 10 m asl, just north of the village of Forteau, southern Labrador
- Map sheet
- 12 P/07
- Submitter
- E. Harp
- Date submitted
- July 7, 0097
- Measured Age
- 5399 ± 58
- Normalized Age
- 5399 ± 58
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Archaic; Archaïque
- Context
- buried turf layer exposed in blowout in highest dunes of the site
- Additional information
- McGhee and Tuck quote the date as 5561 +/- 60 BP.
- Comments
- EiBf-2, Forteau Point (Harp's Forteau Bay 1): McGhee and Tuck (1978: 10) mention P-691, a date obtained by Harp, but they make no reference to it in their description of the site (ibid: 59-62). They place the age of the site between 4000 and 3000 BP (ibid: Table 6), at least a millennium younger than Harp's date. However, they subsequently obtained SI-2311 which would appear to confirm the date obtained by Harp.