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- Lab number
- Beta-55800
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- at the extreme southwestern edge of Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 C/14
- Date submitted
- June 26, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 3480 ± 80
- Significance
- Locarno Beach
- Stratigraphic component
- Midden
- Context
- back trench, N40-42/W86-88, 3.3 m depth, a large sample from the bottom of concentrated crushed shell with sand
- Comments
- DfSi-4, Ch'uumat'a: This is a large conspicuous shell midden about 120 m long and 70 m inland. Consistent with evidence from the Little Beach and Shoemaker Bay sites, McMillan (1998) suggests that the occupants of the Ch'uumat'a site prior to 2000 BP were culturally distinct from the subsequent Nuu-chah-nulth people of this area. The earlier components are similar to the Locarno Beach phase of the Strait of Georgia, and the youngest component belongs to the West Coast culture type as defined by Mitchell (1990).