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Canada / NS / BiCu-1 (Debert) / P-778
- Lab number
- P-778
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- 16 km west of Truro, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 E/06
- Submitter
- G.F. MacDonald
- Date submitted
- July 6, 0097
- Measured Age
- 5790 ± 132
- Normalized Age
- 5790 ± 132
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Context
- charred root, not associated with artifacts, from section G
- Comments
- BiCu-1, Debert: This large Palaeoindian habitation site produced a long series of very consistent radiocarbon dates. The two youngest dates were not associated with cultural materials. Of the other 13 dates, only one is anomalously recent.