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- Lab number
- S-2331
- Field number
- CMC-1287
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- south end of the village of Greenville, 135 m from the northwest bank of the Nass River, 28 km above the river mouth, in the Coast Mountains, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 103 P/04
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0096
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 1410 ± 115
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Stratigraphic component
- Layer C
- Context
- Layer C, silt and clay, pebbles, fired rock, charcoal, below shell layer, unit 10
- Comments
- GgTj-6, Greenville: A midden excavation in the modern Nisga'a village of Greenville yielded 36 human burial features, the skeletal remains of 57 individuals, 231 cultural artifacts, and 19,389 pieces of non-human bone. Two burial components were identified, one in a shell layer (Layer B) dated A.D. 566 to 1010, the other in an overlying soil layer (Layer A2) dated A.D. 1180 to 1290 in calibrated radiocarbon years. Dissimilar age and sex distributions suggest structural differences in the contributing populations, though a single lineage or social class could have been involved. There was no evidence for habitation in terms of non-mortuary site features, but the faunal debris reflected an expected local ecological orientation in favour of anadromous fish resources, probably including food for the dead. Chisholm (1986: 143) determined 13C ratios of -13.5 and -14.0 for two burials from this site, neither of them dated.