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- Lab number
- CAMS-28081
- Field number
- 204T2
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mytilus edulis
- 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
- 2690 ± 50
- Significance
- West Coast; Côte ouest
- Stratigraphic component
- main village area, auger test, midden, near base of deposit, 270-278 cm depth
- Context
- main village area, auger test, midden 9 m asl, near base of deposit, 270-278 cm depth
- Additional information
- AMS date. Part of a marine/terrestrial pair (see CAMS-28075).
- 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.