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- Lab number
- Beta-147073
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Benson Island, in the Broken Group, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 C/14
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 5050 ± 60
- Significance
- culture?
- Stratigraphic component
- early component on back ridge, in basal red-brown clay, assumed to be cultural but not conclusiveS58-60/W62-63, Layer 7E
- Context
- early component on back ridge, S58-60/W62-63, Layer 7E, in basal red-brown clay, assumed to be cultural but not conclusive
- Additional information
- Dates original surface below a relatively shallow midden, marking a time of sea level ca. 3 m above present.
- Comments
- DfSi-16, Ts'ishaa Village, 204T: This is the origin place of the Tseshaht Nation in their oral histories. McMillan dated samples from his excavations, and Fedje submitted a pair of mussel and charcoal samples in a study of the marine reservoir effect.