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Lab number
GaK-6231
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
1470 ± 100
Significance
Plateau
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.

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