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Lab number
Beta-147072
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
500 ± 60
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
West Coast; Côte ouest
Stratigraphic component
main village area, shell midden on middle terraceArea EA2, Layer 10C, 1.2 m depth
Context
Area EA2, main village area, Layer 10C, shell midden on middle terrace, 1.2 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.

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