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- Lab number
- S-1270
- Field number
- CMC- 871
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- northwest shore of Protection Island, east of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 G/04
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Measured Age
- 2440 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 280 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Strait of Georgia; détroit de Georgia
- Context
- scattered throughout Level 4, 0-100 cm north-south, 70-100 cm east-west, 40-43 cm depth
- Comments
- DhRx-5, Protection Island: This is a small shallow shelf midden overlying portions of an otherwise undisturbed petroglyph pecked into a sandstone slab at the seaward edge of the midden. The midden is about 4 m above high tide overlooking a shallow tidal channel between Protection Island and Newcastle Island. Artifacts suggest developed Coast Salish culture common to the region. Oral communication with residents and soil analyses support no recent site disturbance. The recovered artifacts indicate historic and prehistoric cultural components. S-1270 and S-1271 provide minimum dates for the rock carving.