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Lab number
I-6411
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on the Norfolk Sand Plain, Oxford County, Ontario
Map sheet
40 I/15
Submitter
W.A. Fox
Date submitted
January 26, 0098
Normalized Age
900 ± 90
Significance
Late Woodland, Glen Meyer; Sylvicole supérieur
Context
pit feature 45, trench 1
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Lepus americanus 2, Rodentia 3, Sciuridae 1, Sciurus carolinensis 97, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 21, Marmota monax 49, Tamias striatus 46, Erethizon dorsatum 1, Castor canadensis 64, Ondatra zibethicus 13, Carnivora 9, Canidae 4, Canis familiaris 15, Vulpes vulpes 12, Ursus americanus 13, Procyon lotor 23, Mustelidae 1, Martes americana 4, Lynx canadensis 1, Odocoileus virginianus 105; Aves Pisces
Additional information
NISP was calculated from percentages (Campbell and Campbell, 1989: Table 4) and may be slightly in error.
Comments
AfHd-1, Dewaele: This is a Glen Meyer village of four or more houses and a 2-3 row palisade, covering about 0.8 hectares. It has received limited excavation. Cooper and Savage (1994: 25) report that two preliminary analyses report on material recovered from excavations between 1967 and 1971. Some features were screened, but none was floated. Burns' sample, from several units, was 52% fish, 23% mammal, and 21% avian, with 12% thermally altered. White-tailed deer was probably the most important source of meat. Fish were a dietary staple, and passenger pigeon appear to have been intensively exploited by nest-robbing of the young. Coary examined specimens from one midden, and her findings are consistent with those of Burns. Fauna: Aves, Ectopistes migratorius; Pisces

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