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Lab number
Beta-75887
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
George Fraser Islands, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Map sheet
92 C/13
Date submitted
September 3, 0099
Date uploaded
February 14, 2020
Normalized Age
440 ± 70
Significance
West Coast; Côte ouest
Context
near bottom, western end of trench
Comments
a 10x2m trench was dug at site. Deposits averaged about 70cm in depth. The midden deposits are thickest towards the center of the saddle shape, tapering off as you move out to the edges of the islet. Ethnographically said to be a whaling lookout with deepest deposits coming from the middle of the

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