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Lab number
AA-369
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
Minong strand line, 230 m asl, north shore of Lake Superior, Kaministikwia valley, about 8 km west of Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
Map sheet
52 A/06
Submitter
P.J. Julig
Date submitted
March 15, 2002
Normalized Age
340 ± 430
Significance
geoarchaeology, anomalous, young; géoarchéologie, anormal, jeune
Context
within Minong beach gravels
Additional information
AMS date. Julig (1994: Table 4.4) considers the charcoal to be intrusive.
Comments
DcJi-1, Cummins: This is an extensive quarry workshop and habitation site of the late Palaeoindian (Plano) period (Dawson, 1983b; Julig, 1994). All remaining human bone was used to obtain the date numbered CRNL-1216. The site has also produced a small amount of clearly identifiable Archaic material (Hinshellwood, 2004). Five late Holocene dates from apparent cultural contexts have been interpreted variously as representing intrusive charcoal from ancient tree throws and forest fires, or as dates reflecting the Archaic uses of the site.

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