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Canada / BC / DcRu-7 / Beta-163004
- Lab number
- Beta-163004
- Material dated
- shell
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- 0 m asl, The Gorge, southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Date uploaded
- June 27, 2017
- Normalized Age
- 1670 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Stratigraphic component
- localized shell deposit. With whole and broken shell. Midden also had lithics and faunal material throughoutUnit-2, substrat 2, level 8
- Context
- shell midden
- Comments
- site DcRu-7 is a large shell midden known to include human burials and intact stratified midden deposits. The area of DcRu-7 has shell midden deposits up to 80 cm below surface, the maximum depth of testing. One-hundredand-fourteen (114) artifacts were recovered from the excavation units. The artifact types and styles, and the Burial 2 interment style were all generally consistent with the