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- Lab number
- DIC-761
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the north bank of Rainy River, 55 km west of Fort Frances, Roseberry Township, Rainy River District, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 52 D/09
- Submitter
- D. Arthurs
- Date submitted
- January 21, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 200 ± 100
- Significance
- Woodland, Selkirk / Sandy Lake; Sylvicole
- Stratigraphic component
- Component 2
- Context
- XU F-11, Level IV, 10 cm depth, associated mainly with Selkirk ceramics with some Sandy Lake pottery
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 1548, Bison bison 2, Cervidae 10, Alces alces 27, Canis sp 1, Canis familiaris 2, Castor canadensis 135, Erethizon dorsatum 5, Lepus americanus 2, Ondatra zibethicus 6, Martes americana 7, Mustela vison 1, Homo sapiens 2; Aves 3, Anas rubripes 1; Reptilia: Chrysemys picta 1; Pisces 98, Acipenser fulvescens 33, Stizostedion vitreum 3, Catostomidae 10; Mollusca: Unionidae 21; Class uncertain 216
- Additional information
- This faunal assemblage is time-transgressive, spanning an interval of about 1.0-0.2 ka.
- Comments
- DdKm-1, Long Sault: This is a stratified, multi-component habitation and burial mound site. Kenyon's excavations focused on the burial mounds. Kenyon expected a date at least 600 years earlier, but I-2594 agrees with another date on a burial mound in the Trent River system. Arthurs' study was oriented toward the habitation site surrounding the mounds, investigating "the occupational sequence of the site, ... aspects of subsistence and settlement, the acquisition and utilization of various resources, and the continuity and changes ... in these through time" (Arthurs 1986: i). Arthurs detected five components in the excavation area, but two of them are not distinguished from one another in the faunal analysis. They are presented in this database as follows: Component 1, Historic, late 19th century to early 20th century; Component 2, Terminal Woodland, including late prehistoric Selkirk, Sandy Lake and other ceramics associated with the only radiocarbon date from the site (DIC-761: 200 +/- 100 BP), and a somewhat earlier Blackduck occupation dating to AD 1000-1200. The faunal remains are presented as a unit for this Terminal Woodland component which is here given an age range of AD 1000-1800; Component 3, Initial Woodland, Laurel, dated to AD 750 by ceramic seriation, given here an age range of AD 700-900; Component 4, Archaic, comparable to late Pelican Lake, or the Larter phase, in Manitoba, with an estimated age of 500 BC.