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- Lab number
- Beta-43148
- Material dated
- charred plant remains; restes de plantes carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Betula sp. bark
- Locality
- on Skull Island, a small island southwest of Shediac Island, Westmorland County, New Brunswick
- Map sheet
- 21 I/07
- Submitter
- K. Leonard
- Date submitted
- October 6, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 680 ± 70
- Significance
- Woodland; Sylvicole
- Context
- bark lining of burial pit
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Homo sapiens; Flora: Betula sp
- Comments
- CbDd-1, Skull Island: This site contained a late Woodland cremation burial pit attributed to late prehistoric Mi'kmaq. Historic bones of uncertain affiliation have also been found, elsewhere on the island. All prehistoric, cremated bones have been reburied. In view of diagnostic artifact associations, Leonard prefers the older of two dates on birch bark that lined the cremation pit.