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- Lab number
- n/a-49
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the west bank of the upper part of Lake Caniapiscau, région de Nouveau-Québec, Québec
- Map sheet
- 23 K/04
- Submitter
- D. Denton
- Date submitted
- December 10, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 3585 ± 95
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- pit c, from a dense concentration of charcoal at the bottom of the pit. A single quartz fragment was found within the pit fill.
- Additional information
- Taillon et Barré (1987: 279) cite this date as 3485 +/- 95 BP.
- Comments
- GaEl-3, Lac Caniapiscau, comments by D. Denton: The context of both dates is excellent. The importance of the oldest date of the pair is that it is the oldest date from a site both in the Caniapiscau area and in the James Bay as a whole. Unfortunately, the cultural material associated with the date is singularly unrevealing. More recent excavation in the area of the LG-4 reservoir confirms both the importance of quartz during the early phase of occupation of the central interior of the Québec-Labrador peninsula and the use of heating in pits as a means of initial processing of the quartz.