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Lab number
Beta-158742
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
3330 ± 70
Significance
culture?
Stratigraphic component
lower shell depositback ridge, S58-60/W64-66, Layer 8D
Context
back ridge, S58-60/W64-66, Layer 8D, lower shell deposit
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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