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- Lab number
- GaK-4905
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- at the outlet of Punchaw Lake, on the northwest bank of Tako Creek which enters Blackwater River near its confluence with the Fraser River, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 93 G/06
- Date submitted
- May 11, 0096
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 560 ± 75
- Significance
- Kamloops
- Context
- in the upper zone of house platform 1
- Comments
- FiRs-1, Punchaw village: The site includes 43 house-platforms and 57 storage pits visible as surface features. A 1973 field school completely excavated house-platform 1 and the remainder of house-platform 2, and placed test units into house-platforms 34, 36, and 43, as well as storage pit 50. Four human burials were encountered. The site is related to the ancient history of the Carrier people.