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Lab number
S-761
Field number
CMC- 600
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
Sorrento, South Thompson River, Fraser drainage, British Columbia
Map sheet
82 L/11
Date submitted
March 20, 1998
Date uploaded
February 14, 2020
Measured Age
1980 ± 140
Normalized Age
1200 ± 75
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Plateau
Stratigraphic component
house pit hearth
Context
house pit 1, test pit 3, hearth in the lower of two components
Additional information
From Radiocarbon Vol 26, No 2, 1984, P 257: "From House pit 1, Test Pit 3, hearth feature of 2nd component separated by 2 to 3cm sterile deposits from upper occupation. Collected 1972 by S Baldwin; submitted 1972 by S J Fladmark.
Comments

This is a large site with about 26 house pits. Upper components indicate a Kamloops phase occupation. S-761, from the second component, is separated from the upper components by 2-3 cm of sterile deposits. Richards and Rousseau (1987) give the Borden number as EfQv-19 and assign this lower component to the Plateau phase.

Note that this date was originally associated with Borden number EfQu-19. Katrina Fast (Antiquus Archaeological Consultants Ltd.) pointed out this error and that the correct site designation is EfQv-19 (Meek-Tate, aka Tate): "Site EfQu-19 is on the other side of Shuswap Lake near Scotch Creek and is an isolated lithic find recorded in 1999: no radiocarbon samples were taken at EfQu-19." See also a 1972 report by Sharon Fladmark.

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