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- Lab number
- Beta-134655
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Benson Island, in the Broken Group, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 92 C/14
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1490 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- West Coast; Côte ouest
- Stratigraphic component
- main village area, shell midden,Area EA1, Layer 25C, middle of deposit, 2.3 m depth
- Context
- Area EA1, main village area, shell midden, Layer 25C, middle of deposit, 2.3 m depth
- Comments
- DfSi-16, Ts'ishaa Village, 204T: This is the origin place of the Tseshaht Nation in their oral histories. McMillan dated samples from his excavations, and Fedje submitted a pair of mussel and charcoal samples in a study of the marine reservoir effect.