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- Lab number
- GaK-1271
- Field number
- CMC- 155
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on Bell point at Jones Cove, Port Mouton Harbour, Queens County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 20 P/15
- Submitter
- J.S. Erskine
- Date submitted
- July 6, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2640 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 2640 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland; Sylvicole
- Context
- near bottom of site, 66 cm depth, Upper Bear River level
- Additional information
- Wilmeth lists this date under the Borden designation AlDf-1.
- Comments
- AlDf-18, Port Mouton: This is a stratified site with late Upper Bear River culture below a thinner Indian Gardens deposit. Erskine comments that GaK-1271 conflicts seriously with earlier determinations of AD 648-840 for Upper Bear River culture at Port Joli (AlDf-3, S-155) and date of 265-96 BC for the period just preceding Upper Bear River at Bear River subsite 3 (BdDk-1, S-159). There seems to be no possibility of contamination of GaK-1271. More stratified sites are needed to clear up confusion in southwestern Nova Scotia. Kristmanson (1992) notes that the date corresponds to ceramic period 2 in the Petersen/Sanger model, and this is consistent with the presence of dentate ceramics.