Canada / BC / EeRi-178 / Beta-292455

Lab number

Beta-292455

Field number

EERI178001

Material dated

charred material

Type of date

Archaeological

Locality

Cache Creek Landfill

Map sheet

94 I/14

Elevation (m ASL)

710

Submitter

Shana Morin

Date submitted

January 28, 2011

Uploader

Ewan Anderson

Date uploaded

May 28, 2015

Normalized Age

1950 ± 40

δ¹³C (per mil)

-22.7

Significance

Shuswap Horizon, Plateau Horizon

Stratigraphic component

Layer I

Context

Feature 3 (earth oven)

Additional information

Sample is from subsurface basin of feature, which may indicate last use of feature (sampling toss zone may indicate older use); feature lacks heating element stones, consitent with similarly aged features in region (Peacock n.d., Nicolaides 2010)

Comments

EeRi-178 also contains dense lithic (including Shuswap and Plateau Horizon points) and animal bone concentrations, which appear to be associated with features 3 and 10

References

• Anderson, Ewan R., Sandra Peacock, Ian Franck, Shana K. Morin 2014 Site Investigations, Cache Creek Landfill Expansion, Cache Creek, British Columbia. Terra Archaeology. HCA Permit 2010-0060. Report on file with the Archaeology Branch, Victoria, BC.