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Canada / BC / EeRl-22 (Mitchell) / S-581
- Lab number
- S-581
- Field number
- CMC- 397
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- east bank of Fraser River, 3.5 km north of Lillooet, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 I/12
- Date submitted
- May 11, 0096
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 2550 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Shuswap?
- Stratigraphic component
- Housepit 1
- Context
- Housepit 1, floor E, a well defined lens of charcoal from the living floor, 12.9S/8.7-8.95W, 1.00-1.10 cm depth, above Bridge River tephra
- Comments
- EeRl-22, Mitchell: The site consists of two pithouses, one with historic components only, the other containing both historic and prehistoric material. The latter exhibited five occupation floors. Artifact yield was moderate and similar to material recovered at the Lochnore-Nesikep sites (Sanger, 1970). S-580, from Floor C, was in a thin stratum of charcoal and burned soil representing the burned and collapsed roof of the housepit. Floor C is one of the best defined floors (or roofs) but not the oldest. S-581, from Floor E, was from a well defined charcoal lens representing the living floor. S-582, from Floor F, is the oldest floor at the site and was 17-26 cm below a thin stratum of Bridge River volcanic ash. Stryd's general comment: all three dates are reasonable and are minimum and maximum for Bridge River volcanic ash (between Floors E and F). Absence of microblades indicates that these tools probably were not used in the Lillooet area by 800 BC, about eight centuries earlier than previously thought.