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Lab number
I-2594
Field number
CMC-_118
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
W.A. Kenyon
Date submitted
January 21, 0098
Measured Age
1010 ± 100
Normalized Age
1010 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Woodland, Laurel; Sylvicole
Stratigraphic component
Armstrong Mound
Context
mound 7, charred log on top of old sod line, part of cribbing
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.

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