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Lab number
DIC-766
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on an island in Lake of the Woods, Kenora District, Ontario
Map sheet
52 E/10
Submitter
C.S. Reid
Date submitted
January 21, 0098
Normalized Age
1500 ± 170
Significance
Woodland, Laurel; Sylvicole
Context
hearth feature in the Laurel stratum, associated with a storage pit 60 cm away, possibly part of a Laurel house structure
Comments
DjKp-3, Meek: This is the largest prehistoric site found to date on Lake of the Woods, including over 1.5 hectares of habitation area, an ossuary about 8 m in diameter, and associated petroglyphs. It may have been the area's major Selkirk village and ceremonial centre in the 14th-15th centuries, and it also yielded the first positively identified Laurel house structure. Balmer presents the faunal remains as a single assemblage. Judging from the distribution of ceramics and the spread of radiocarbon dates, it is a time-averaged assemblage spanning the entire Woodland period. Brandzin-Low (1997: Table 7.7) considers only the earliest two dates (DIC-764, DIC-766) to provide the age of the Laurel component.

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