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Canada / BC / GdTc-2 (Gitaus) / GSC-1141
- Lab number
- GSC-1141
- Field number
- CMC- 323
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Kitselas Canyon, Skeena River, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 103 I/09
- Date submitted
- April 11, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 4100 ± 310
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.1
- Significance
- Gitaus
- Context
- level 12, a prominent hearth feature above a burned sand lens in the northwest quad, 20'S/7'W, 125" above datum
- Comments
- GdTc-2, Gitaus: This is a stratified fishing station at the downstream end of the canyon. In historic times it was a village of the Kitselas tribe of the Tsimshian, and briefly it was the location of a Euro-Canadian steamboat station and village. As summarized by Coupland, the Gitaus site was first occupied during the Gitaus phase (4300-3600 BP) when it probably served as a summer-fall base camp similar to the second oldest component at the Paul Mason site (GdTc-16). The subsequent Skeena phase (3600-3200 BP) is also known from the Gitaus site but was not recorded at the Paul Mason site. The Paul Mason phase (3200-2700 BP) represents the first permanent village in Kitselas Canyon and is known from the Paul Mason site but not from the Gitaus site. The Gitaus site became a permanent village during the Kleanza phase (2500-1500 BP) which was not recorded at the Paul Mason site.