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Lab number
SI-2308
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on a sandy ancient beach, 10 m asl, 800 m east of Forteau Brook, 300 m inland from the northern shore of Forteau Bay, southern Labrador
Map sheet
12 P/07
Submitter
J.A. Tuck
Date submitted
July 9, 0097
Normalized Age
4285 ± 85
Significance
Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
Context
lower of two narrowly separated cultural layers
Comments
EiBf-6, Graveyard: Radiocarbon dates had not yet been obtained when McGhee and Tuck inferred an age of about 4000 BP for this site. They stated: "Despite the stratigraphic suggestion of two separate components, we could not distinguish any difference in the material from the two very close, and occasionally merging, occupation horizons. Accordingly, the artifacts are treated as if they derived from a single component" (McGhee and Tuck, 1975: 56). The three dates subsequently obtained encouraged Tuck (1978) to list the site as multicomponent with two dates (SI-2307, SI-2308) very near the original estimate and associated with expanding stemmed points belong to the Maritime Archaic. The third date (SI-2435) is a millennium younger and is ascribed to a "proto-Beothuk" occupation.

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