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Canada / BC / DgRx-5 (Duke Point) / WSU-2235
- Lab number
- WSU-2235
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Locality
- at the southernmost tip of Jack Point peninsula, 3.5-4.0 m asl, Northumberland Channel, Vancouver Island, Nanaimo, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 G/04
- Date submitted
- April 24, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 2940 ± 105
- δ13C (per mil)
- -0.0
- Significance
- Marpole
- Stratigraphic component
- Component 2
- Context
- Area B, component II
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date was not corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- DgRx-5, Duke Point: Murray distinguishes three components that parallel the tripartite sequence of culture types previously defined in the Gulf of Georgia. However she notes that the distinctions among these types are not as sharp as once believed, and the record reflects considerable cultural continuity. S-2350 was submitted to date a mass burial feature containing evidence for congenital syphilis. The bones appeared to have been covered with coal dust that may have influenced the result. Cybulski (1991) notes that the assignment of component II to the Marpole phase is based mainly on the presence of shell disc beads, a trait also known from earlier deposits. S-2350 and WSU-2229 yielded dates that bracket the beginning of the Locarno Beach phase, and that assignment would be consistent with the lack of cranial deformation in the burial dated by S-2350.