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Lab number
TO-2213
Field number
Renshaw #1
Material dated
plant remains; restes de plantes
Locality
relict shoreline of Lake Superior, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
Map sheet
52 A/03
Submitter
W. Ross
Date submitted
May 25, 0099
Normalized Age
4590 ± 50
Significance
Archaic, Old Copper; Archaïque, Vieux Cuivre
Context
well preserved plant fiber of bark forming a binding of haft around the shaft of a unilaterally barbed copper harpoon point
Additional information
AMS date.
Comments
DaJi-1, Renshaw: S-1370 is an acceptable date for the late Nipissing stage beach at the site locale (McLeod, 1981). Organics preserved by copper salts have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry.

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