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Canada / MB / GdKn-1 (Elk Island) / GaK-1861
- Lab number
- GaK-1861
- Field number
- CMC- 227
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the south shore of Elk Island, 198 m asl, Gods Lake, Hayes drainage, Manitoba
- Map sheet
- 53 L/09
- Submitter
- J.V. Wright
- Date submitted
- May 31, 0091
- Measured Age
- 2830 ± 210
- Normalized Age
- 2830 ± 210
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Shield Archaic; Archaïque de Bouclier
- Context
- test trench 2, under edge of boulder at 37 cm N, 1.4 m W, 30 cm depth
- Comments
- GdKn-1, Elk Island: This is a stratified site with Shield Archaic below Selkirk focus. Comment by Wright: both dates indicate Elk Island site component is a late example of Shield Archaic. Time between the two readings suggests that the Archaic occupation was of limited duration.