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- Lab number
- GSC-406
- Field number
- CMC- 43, C5
- Material dated
- charred wood; bois carbonisé
- Taxa dated
- (13.3 g)
- Locality
- north shore of Montague Harbour, 1-3 m asl, western Galiano Island, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 B/14
- Date submitted
- February 13, 0097
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 2890 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Locarno Beach
- Stratigraphic component
- Component 1
- Context
- black soil, little shell, much bone, Test Cut 1, S3' E2' 80" depth, 9" below water table
- Comments
- DfRu-13, Montague Harbour: This site is a stratified shell midden with three cultural horizons numbered from bottom to top: I. Locarno Beach phase; II. Marpole phase; III. Developed Coast Salish. Mitchell commented that as Montague Harbour I materials seemed to align closely with another Locarno Beach phase site, Pender Canal (DeRt-2) dated 2200 +/- 120 BP (M-1515), it was originally thought that samples from DfRu-13 would be 2000 to 2500 years old. Present dates must alter our opinion of Locarno Beach phase sites, but they do not mean a substantial realignment in thinking. Three of the seven samples submitted to the National Museum were never forwarded to a radiocarbon laboratory.