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Lab number
CAMS-48305
Material dated
bone collagen; collagène osseux
Taxa dated
Callorhinus ursinus
Locality
Benson Island, in the Broken Group, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Map sheet
92 C/14
Date submitted
March 28, 2006
Date uploaded
February 14, 2020
Normalized Age
3770 ± 35
δ13C (per mil)
-14.5
Significance
West Coast; Côte ouest
Stratigraphic component
shell layerback ridge, S62-64/W62-64, Layer 6B
Context
back ridge, S62-64/W62-64, Layer 6B, shell layer
Additional information
AMS date, calibrated with delta R = 250.
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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