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Lab number
S-584
Field number
CMC- 400
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
east bank of Fraser River, 12.9 km north of Lillooet, on Fountain Indian Reserve 1, British Columbia
Map sheet
92 I/12
Date submitted
May 11, 0096
Date uploaded
February 14, 2020
Measured Age
2550 ± 80
Normalized Age
1505 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Plateau?
Context
Locus 3, feature 17, a small oven with burnt evergreen cones and ash, 127 cm depth, the basal cultural deposit in the southern half of the site
Comments
EeRl-19, Fountain: This is a large multicomponent village with pit houses and cache pits. Three major components include (1) a microblade complex of BC age; (2) a transitional period around the time of Christ; and (3) Kamloops phase, AD 1250-1800. S-583, Feature 13, was from a small cooking oven associated with extensive charcoal and burned soil stratum. S-584 was from a small oven located in the basal cultural deposit in the southern part of the site, the oven extending into sterile glacial lake silt. Stryd's general comment: Both S-583 and S-584 date to the period between the microblade and Kamloops phase components, and they indicate that artifact mixing is more extensive than thought. Associated arrow points date to the introduction of the bow and arrow into this part of British Columbia.

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