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Canada / BC / DfRu-8 (Helen Point) / GaK-3204
- Lab number
- GaK-3204
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- west end of Active Pass, northwest tip of Mayne Island, 2 m asl, south end of Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 B/14
- Date submitted
- February 13, 0097
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 640 ± 90
- Significance
- Strait of Georgia; détroit de Georgia
- Stratigraphic component
- Carlson 14
- Context
- Carlson's assemblage 14
- Comments
- DfRu-8, Helen Point: John McMurdo and Roy Carlson excavated different areas of this site, and a detailed faunal analysis was prepared by N. Boucher. Boucher lists 18 spatially defined assemblages that are distinguished by Carlson in his final report, and she uses these to divide the faunal collections from the site. Burley (1980: 32) lists four Marpole dates from GaK, citing a personal communication from R.L. Carlson, and Hutchinson (1992: 40) lists three from SFU, citing the unpublished version of Burley's Ph.D. dissertation. It is assumed in this database that GaK-4937 can be assigned to Carlson's assemblage 5 and the other three GaK dates to Carlson's assemblage 6. The three SFU dates are assumed to belong to Carlson's assemblage 3. Fauna: Aves: Gavia immer, Gavia arctica, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Phalacrocorax pelagicus, Branta canadensis, Anser albifrons, Anas strepera, Anas acuta, Aythya collaris, Clangula hyemalis, Melanitta fusca, Melanitta perspicillata, Haliaeetus or Aquila, Lagopus sp, Larus glaucescens, Rissa tridactyla, Larus philadephia, Uria aalge, Corvus brachyrhynchos; Pisces, Salmonidae, Scorpaenidae, Gadidae, Hexagrammidae, Squalus sp, Hydrolagus colliei, Acipenser sp