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Lab number
S-585
Field number
CMC- 410
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
west end of Kluskus Stream, on both banks, West Road River, Fraser drainage, British Columbia
Map sheet
93 F/02
Date uploaded
February 14, 2020
Measured Age
3850 ± 140
Normalized Age
565 ± 65
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Kamloops
Stratigraphic component
pit feature
Context
pit EE, on south side of stream, burned area or hearth scatter, Level 2, 4.5-7.5 cm depth
Comments
FgSd-1, Tezli: This is a large pithouse village site with multiple occupations both within and between houses. The upper levels may represent Carrier Indians, and the lower levels may pre-date Carrier occupation. Donahue (1977) assigns the dates to three temporal units. Temporal Unit 1 (2500-4100 BP) includes S-667 and S-769, although both dates are older than expected. This represents the earliest known construction of pit houses. Temporal Unit 2 (1300-2500 BP) is represented by S-586, S-770, S-771, and GaK-3280. Temporal Unit 3 (100-800 BP) is represented by S-585, S-666, S-768, and S-1035. Donahue finds the last three dates questionable and suspects that S-1035 samples a recent fence post. Three modern assays are not assigned to the temporal units.

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