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Canada / BC / DcRv-1 (Ash Point) / GaK-1484
- Lab number
- GaK-1484
- Field number
- CMC- 48, C3
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (6.05 g)
- Locality
- Pedder Bay, Matchosin, 0 m asl, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 B/05
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1580 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Strait of Georgia; détroit de Georgia
- Context
- dark sandy soil and gravel with ash, between floors 2 and 3, 26" depth
- Comments
- DcRv-1, Ash Point: This is a prehistoric village or large camp site, excavation of which yielded a unitary assemblage of generally recent aspect but with scattered elements more typical of the Marpole culture type. The latter has been found stratigraphically underlying recent "Coast Salish" components at other sites in the region. Abbott feels that GaK-1485 should have been slightly earlier than GaK-1484, and certainly any difference as great as that found is precluded. The wooden stake (GaK-1485) was apparently driven in from the historic surface. GaK-1484 is acceptable, although earlier than expected. It is much earlier than most dates received for local late period components, except for a 1514 +/- 40 BP date for the Fox Grove component, Sucia I, Washington (Dorn et al., 1962: 7). But the date is identical to that for the Whalen II assemblage and is actually older than some of those for the Beach Grove component (DgRs-1) of Marpole culture type. The few examples of Marpole-like artifact types found in the Pedder Bay assemblage thus become of considerable interest and raise again the question of the continuity of culture change in the regional sequence. This assemblage could be interpreted as transitional from an earlier Marpole-like culture to "Developed Coast Salish," or it may be that one culture replaced the other after a period of co-existence. According to Ham (1982: Fig. 2-28), both dates can be assigned to Developed Coast Salish. Two samples (C1, C11) were submitted to the National Museum but were not dated. Duff stated that C2, C4, and C7 were submitted to Washington State University, but no other references to these samples have been found.