Canada / BC / EeRi-178 / Beta-292456

Lab number

Beta-292456

Field number

EERI178002

Material dated

charred material

Type of date

Archaeological

Locality

Cache Creek Landfill

Map sheet

95 I/14

Elevation (m ASL)

710

Submitter

Shana Morin

Date submitted

January 28, 2011

Uploader

Ewan Anderson

Date uploaded

May 28, 2015

Normalized Age

1890 ± 40

δ¹³C (per mil)

-22.0

Significance

Shuswap Horizon, Plateau Horizon

Context

Feature 10 (earth oven)

Additional information

Sample is from subsurface basin of feature, which may indicate last use of feature (sampling toss zone may indicate older use); feature lacks heating element stones, consitent with similarly aged features in region (Peacock n.d., Nicolaides 2010)

Comments

EeRi-178 also contains dense lithic (including Shuswap and Plateau Horizon points) and animal bone concentrations, which appear to be associated with features 3 and 10

References

• Anderson, Ewan R., Sandra Peacock, Ian Franck, Shana K. Morin 2014 Site Investigations, Cache Creek Landfill Expansion, Cache Creek, British Columbia. Terra Archaeology. HCA Permit 2010-0060. Report on file with the Archaeology Branch, Victoria, BC.