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Canada / BC / DkSf-2 (Millard Creek) / S-944
- Lab number
- S-944
- Field number
- CMC- 706
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- 7.5 m asl, 0.4 km from mouth of Millard Creek, 3.2 km south of Courtenay, Comox District, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 F/10
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Measured Age
- 4550 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 16910 ± 270
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- culture?, anomalous, old; anormal, vieux
- Context
- Area A, bottom one-third of unstratified test pit, 76-81 cm depth, associated with a bone whistle
- Comments
- DkSf-2, Millard Creek: The site is in an extensive area of shell deposits covered with second growth forest about 50 years old. S-142 was associated with bone awls, small shell disk beads, worked cannel coal (lignite), and considerable obsidian and rock crystal detritus. Food bones were predominantly deer and salmon (Capes 1977). The presence of Cascade point seems to place the site in the Old Cordilleran culture of the Northwest, although a biconically perforated cannel coal object is a trait not hitherto associated with that tradition. Capes notes that S-142 is compatible with ages of other sites of the Old Cordilleran tradition, but S-944 is too early, probably coal-contaminated. Borden (1975: 91-92) considered the neatly fashioned pendant incongruous with the age given by S-142, and he suggested that coal contamination might have affected both samples, concluding that the site "cannot seriously be regarded as documenting early occupation of the area."