CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
- Lab number
- GaK-1282
- Field number
- CMC-_164
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- north shore of Whitefish Lake, 64 km southwest of Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 52 B/01
- Submitter
- K.C.A. Dawson
- Date submitted
- January 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1990 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 1990 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Laurel; Sylvicole
- Context
- sq. 0S/110W, 25 cm depth, just above pottery cache in what appears to be a roasting pit
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 24, Castor canadensis 4-2, Erethizon dorsatum 1-1, Ursus americanus 2-1, Alces alces 1-1, Homo sapiens 7-2; Aves 19, Gavia immer 6-2, Gavia stellata cf. 1-1, Branta canadensis cf. 1-1, Aythya collaris 2-1, Mergus merganser 3-1, Mergus serrator 2-1, Anatini 1-?, Haliaeetus leucocephalus 2-1; Pisces 3
- Comments
- DbJm-2, McCluskey: This is an extensive Blackduck village site. Dawson considered GaK-1282 older than expected due either to a Laurel occupation, evidenced by a few sherds, or a forest fire. Reid and Rajnovich list it as a Laurel date.