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Canada / ON / AkGv-___8 (Parsons) / TO-2519
- Lab number
- TO-2519
- Material dated
- cultigen; cultigène
- Taxa dated
- carbonized Triticum sp seed
- Locality
- on a broad promontory overlooking Black Creek, a tributary of Humber River, City of North York, Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 30 M/13
- Submitter
- R.F. Williamson
- Date submitted
- February 16, 2006
- Normalized Age
- 240 ± 50
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- exterior area 9, feature 201
- Associated taxa
- cultigen: Triticum aestivum or Triticum compactum
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- AkGv-8, Parsons: The artifact assemblage from this late Iroquoian site suggests that the village was occupied around AD 1450. Three radiocarbon dates are consistent with this age, while one is anomalously old. An anomalously young date may reflect contamination by European cultigens.