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Age BP | S-2338 (4100 ±170) | |
Site | FlUa-4 (Bluejackets Creek) ( / 2.4 km south of Masset, east shore of Masset Sound, south of Skaga Sound, Queen Charlotte Islands, B / BC / Canada ) | |
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Latitude | 54.0000 | |
Longitude | -132.0000 | |
Contact | Not available | |
Material | human bone collagen; collagene osseux humain | |
Taxonomy | b'Homo sapiens innominate and other fragments' | |
Context | black soil with crushed shell and fish bone, north half of S1/W2, Level 6, 100-120 cm depth, burial | |
References | Chisholm, 1986 Lowdon et al., 1972 Rutherford et al., 1979, 1981 Severs, 1974a, 1974c Wilmeth, 1978a | |
Comments | Field number : CMC-1294 103 F/16 P. Sutherland April 24, 0098 4000 170 Significance : Graham Level 6 Associated taxa : Mammalia: Homo sapiens Aditional Information : The normalized age is a minimum, because marine resources were probably included in the diet. FlUa-4, Bluejackets Creek: Extensive shell midden deposits 0.3-2.4 m deep. The assemblage includes retouched basalt flakes, large crude pebble choppers, boulder spall scrapers, various pecked and ground-stone artifacts, abrasive stones, ground slate, and worked bone. The latter appear to correlate with middle to late periods of the Prince Rupert Harbour sequence (MacDonald 1969). S-676 is an acceptable date. Sutherland comments on S-935 and S-936 that the results agree with previous dates. She considers the dates on human bones to be somewhat too early, possibly due to contamination from white glue used to harden the bones for removal from the site. Chisholm (1986: 144) reports 13C ratios for six burials from this site, three of them dated. The latter three dates are normalized with their measured ratios. Among the six ratios, two are outliers in relation to the whole coastal region, and the other four yield an average ratio of -14.4 parts per mil (Chisholm, 1986: 104). | |
