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Lab number
P-691
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
200 m inland from the north shore of a long sandy point extending into Forteau Bay, 10 m asl, just north of the village of Forteau, southern Labrador
Map sheet
12 P/07
Submitter
E. Harp
Date submitted
July 7, 0097
Measured Age
5399 ± 58
Normalized Age
5399 ± 58
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Archaic; Archaïque
Context
buried turf layer exposed in blowout in highest dunes of the site
Additional information
McGhee and Tuck quote the date as 5561 +/- 60 BP.
Comments
EiBf-2, Forteau Point (Harp's Forteau Bay 1): McGhee and Tuck (1978: 10) mention P-691, a date obtained by Harp, but they make no reference to it in their description of the site (ibid: 59-62). They place the age of the site between 4000 and 3000 BP (ibid: Table 6), at least a millennium younger than Harp's date. However, they subsequently obtained SI-2311 which would appear to confirm the date obtained by Harp.

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