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Canada / NL / EiBf-6 (Graveyard) / SI-2308
- Lab number
- SI-2308
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on a sandy ancient beach, 10 m asl, 800 m east of Forteau Brook, 300 m inland from the northern shore of Forteau Bay, southern Labrador
- Map sheet
- 12 P/07
- Submitter
- J.A. Tuck
- Date submitted
- July 9, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 4285 ± 85
- Significance
- Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
- Context
- lower of two narrowly separated cultural layers
- Comments
- EiBf-6, Graveyard: Radiocarbon dates had not yet been obtained when McGhee and Tuck inferred an age of about 4000 BP for this site. They stated: "Despite the stratigraphic suggestion of two separate components, we could not distinguish any difference in the material from the two very close, and occasionally merging, occupation horizons. Accordingly, the artifacts are treated as if they derived from a single component" (McGhee and Tuck, 1975: 56). The three dates subsequently obtained encouraged Tuck (1978) to list the site as multicomponent with two dates (SI-2307, SI-2308) very near the original estimate and associated with expanding stemmed points belong to the Maritime Archaic. The third date (SI-2435) is a millennium younger and is ascribed to a "proto-Beothuk" occupation.