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Canada / ON / CbGw-___1 (Frank Bay) / M-363
- Lab number
- M-363
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Frank Bay, Lake Nipissing, near the source of the French River and the mouth of Bass Creek, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 L/04
- Submitter
- F. Ridley
- Date submitted
- July 20, 2000
- Measured Age
- 2920 ± 150
- Normalized Age
- 2920 ± 150
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Archaic; Archaïque
- Context
- deposit just above the high water erosion mark on the Lake Nipissing shore, to date the preceramic Mattawan complex
- Additional information
- The quoted error has been reduced to one sigma (see Crane and Griffin, 1963: 228).
- Comments
- CbGw-1, Frank Bay: Ridley's excavation of this stratified site revealed a long sequence of Archaic and Woodland components and produced one date with the then-new radiocarbon method. It was a campsite during both the Pickering (Williamson, 1990: 296) and Middleport (Dodd, et al. 1990: 345) stages of the Ontario Iroquois tradition. Six dates from this site resulted from 1978 excavations by M. Brizinski. S-1684 is thought possibly to date a poorly defined Laurel stratum. The other five dates pertain to dog burials interpreted as ritual sacrifices.