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Lab number
GSC-1411
Field number
CMC- 386
Material dated
charcoal and wood; charbon de bois et bois
Locality
on a hill overlooking Back Harbour, Twillingate, Newfoundland
Map sheet
2 E/10
Submitter
D. MacLeod
Date submitted
July 1, 0097
Measured Age
100 ± 130
Normalized Age
100 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Maritime Archaic, anomalous, young; Archaïque maritime, anormal, jeune
Context
shallow hearth, 8-13 cm depth, in orange ash, burnt and unburnt soil
Comments
DjAq-5, Back Harbour: The site is a small camp and workshop related to Maritime Archaic. The location was originally on a small point protruding into a pond, which is now a marsh. Several other small camps and a cemetery of the same culture are within 0.8 km of the site. The cemetery is the Curtis site (DjAq-1), previously dated between 3200 and 3700 BP. It was hoped that GSC-1411 would help to confirm the relationship between the cemetery and this camp at DjAq-5, but the result suggests historic re-use of this Archaic site. The Archaic assemblage is distinguished by well developed stone-grinding technology and a red ochre burial pattern.

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