CARD

Lab number: I-8109
Material dated: charcoal; charbon de bois

Locality: 8 m asl, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Map sheet: 92 E/08

Date submitted: June 11, 0098
Date uploaded: February 14, 2020

Normalized Age: 1200 ± 85

Significance: West Coast; Côte ouest
Stratigraphic component: Component 1
Context: component I, bottom of zone C

Comments: DiSo-9, Loon Cave: This is a long, narrow cave containing up to 2 m of cultural deposits near its entrance. Haggarty divides the stratigraphic sequence into ten zones (A-J) and the cultural record into two components demarcated by the zone E/F boundary. Some sources number the components from bottom up and others from top down; this database follows Calvert in the latter practice. The cave was used as a burial site during the Historic period. It seems that Mitchell (1990: 356) would assign the entire sequence to the West Coast culture type. Fauna: Aves, Gavia immer, Gavia arctica, Gavia stellata, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Podiceps grisegena, Podiceps auritus, Diomedea sp, Puffinus griseus, Hydrobatidae, Phalacrocorax pelagicus, Phalacrocorax penicillatus, Branta canadensis, Branta bernicla, Anser albifrons, Chen caerulescens, Anas platyrhynchos, Anas clypeata, Aythya marila, Bucephala islandica, Bucephala albeola, Clangula hyemalis, Melanitta fusca, Melanitta perspicillata, Mergus merganser, Mergus serrator, Erolia sp, Stercoraridae, Larus glaucescens, Larus heermanni, Larus philadelphia, Uria aalge, Brachyramphus marmoratus, Ixoreus naevius, Fringillidae; Pisces, Squalus acanthias, Raja sp, Hydrolagus colliei, Clupea harengus, Sardinops sagax, Engraulidae, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Porichthys notatus. Embiotoca lateralis, Rhacochilus vacca, Sebastes ruberrimus, Anoplopoma fimbria, Ophiodon elongatus, Hexagrammos lagocephalus, Enophrys bison, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus, Hippoglossus stenolepis, Lepidosetta bilineata, Eopsetta jordani, Platichthys stellatus

Canada / BC / DiSo-9 (Loon Cave) / I-8109

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