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Lab number
CAMS-85647
Material dated
bone collagen; collagène osseux
Taxa dated
Callorhinus ursinus
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
895 ± 30
δ13C (per mil)
-14.1
Significance
West Coast; Côte ouest
Stratigraphic component
main village area,near top of shell Area EA1, Layer 4A
Context
Area EA1, main village area, Layer 4A, near top of shell
Additional information
AMS date, calibrated with delta R = 250.
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.

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