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Lab number
SFU-539
Field number
DfRu-44: 87-1
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
Saltspring Island, ca. 4 m asl, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
Map sheet
92 B/14
Date submitted
March 9, 0099
Date uploaded
February 14, 2020
Normalized Age
2310 ± 60
Significance
Marpole
Context
large lens of charcoal at the bottom of layer 5 (not from a steaming pit at the top of layer 4 as originally thought)
Comments
DfRu-44, Long Harbour: The earliest component represents Locarno Beach in Layers 3 and 4, and it is followed by a Marpole component in Layers 5-7. An historic component occurs at the top of the sequence.

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