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Canada / NL / FjCa-38 (Red Ochre) / GSC-1280
- Lab number
- GSC-1280
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on a 24 m terrace overlooking Little Lake opposite North West River, Lake Melville, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 F/09
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- June 29, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3070 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 3090 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.7
- Significance
- Intermediate, Brinex; Intermédiaire
- Context
- hearth in fire-burned sand and rocks, 15-20 cm depth
- Additional information
- Nagle (1978) lists the site as FjCa-33, and the date as 3070 +/- 180 BP.
- Comments
- FjCa-38, Red Ochre: This is the highest tool-bearing site found in the area. In addition to hearth charcoal, burned roots from forest fires also occurred in the deposit but generally could be picked out during sampling; nevertheless there is some possibility of contamination. Available data on uplift at North West River suggests this site could not have been occupied earlier than 1500-1800 BC (cf. GSC-1135, 5530 +/- 170 yrs; Mytilus edulis fragments at ca. 33 m; Fitzhugh, 1972; Lowdon et al., 1971: 263). Fitzhugh concludes that the range of GSC-1280 is several centuries younger than the geological estimate but agrees well with the typological evidence.