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Canada / BC / DiSo-9 (Loon Cave) / WSU-1544
- Lab number
- WSU-1544
- 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
- 1800 ± 70
- Significance
- West Coast; Côte ouest
- Stratigraphic component
- Component 2
- Context
- component II, lower part of zone H
- 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, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Podiceps grisegena, Podiceps auritus, Diomedea sp, Puffinus griseus, Phalacrocorax pelagicus, Phalacrocorax penicillatus, Phalacrocorax auritus, Ardea herodias, Branta canadensis, Aythya marila, Melanitta fusca, Melanitta perspicillata, Mergus sp, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Scolopacidae, Stercorarius parasiticus, Larus glaucescens, Rissa tridactyla, Uria aalge, Strigidae; Pisces, Squalus acanthias, Raja sp, Hydrolagus colliei, Clupea harengus, Sardinops sagax, Engraulidae, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Porichthys notatus, Embiotoca lateralis, Rhacochilus vacca, Sebastes ruberrimus, Ophiodon elongatus, Hexagrammos sp, Enophrys bison, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus, Hippoglossus stenolepis, Lepidosetta bilineata, Platichthys stellatus