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- Lab number
- RIDDL-200
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- 0-3 m asl, Pender Island, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 B/14
- Date submitted
- February 13, 0097
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 480 ± 170
- Significance
- Strait of Georgia; détroit de Georgia
- Stratigraphic component
- SU 6
- Context
- hearth, Level 16, 4.40N/27.15W, 160 cm depth, SU 6
- Comments
- DeRt-1, Pender Canal: This site contains three components, representing the Locarno Beach, Marpole, and San Juan phases. Carlson and Hobler summarize the results of a major salvage excavation conducted from 1984 through 1986, with chronological control supplied by 16 radiocarbon dates. They distinguish six stratigraphic units (SU), some with subdivisions. SU 1 is glacial till that is devoid of artifacts but has been leveled and penetrated by pits that may have contained posts. SU 2a is an intertidal deposit and SU 2b a compact black deposit, both containing artifacts of the Locarno Beach phase. SU 3, a massive deposit of burned shell, also represents the Locarno Beach phase. SU 4 is a layer of dark midden and shell found in the central part of the midden and containing burial 85-1. Its artifacts belong to the Marpole phase. SU 5a is another massive deposit of burned shell. SU 5b appears as a black humus layer in the western part of the excavation but expands into lenses of shell, charcoal and fired rock eastward. SU 5a and 5b represent the Marpole phase. SU 6 is the most extensive unit, covering the entire site and reaching a thickness of 2 m at the beachward edge of the midden and 75 cm toward the rear. This midden deposit contains artifacts of the San Juan phase of developed Coast Salish culture. Fauna: Pisces, Squalus acanthias, Hydrolagus colliei, Clupea harengus, Oncorhynchus sp, Gadus macrocephalus, Merluccius productus, Microgadus proximus, Perciformes, Embiotoca lateralis, Rhacochilus vacca, Stichaeidae, Sebastes sp, Hexagrammos stelleri, Ophiodon elongatus, Enophrys bison, Hemilepidotus sp, Leptocottus armatus, Myoxocephalus sp, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus, Platichthys stellatus