CARD

Locality: north side of Artifact Valley, at confluence of Wet Creek and Braided River, Mount Edziza, Stikine drainage, British Columbia
Map sheet: 104 G/07

Significance: culture?
Stratigraphic component: Area 2
Context: hearth in creek channel 8 m west of XU 23-24n2-3w, Area 2, 4-6 cm depth

Comments: HiTp-1, Wet Creek: "House 1" is interpreted as a natural depression, intensively occupied by people, but not a constructed feature as was initially assumed. SFU-143 overlay the main cultural level and is interpreted as a minimum age limit on the main occupation. SFU-141 was directly associated with numerous flakes and a large biface fragment and is considered an accurate estimate of the age of the main cultural occupation in this area. Area 2 is the main eastern block excavation at the Wet Creek site. SFU-142 was a single large clean-looking, well-preserved lump of wood charcoal, and field observations note that it is "probably intrusive" by slump or frost cracking. SFU-262 consisted of a small cluster of charcoal flecks near the top of the cultural horizon. Both dates are considered to be minimum estimates for the Area 2 assemblage. The two samples represented the only organic remains found in the area. SFU-145 is from a shallowly buried charcoal-lens hearth that produced a large number of biface thinning flakes, one heavily worn basalt biface, an end-scraper, and some small fragments of calcined bones, possibly ground squirrel. It demonstrates the presence of native occupation during the latter cool phase of the Neoglacial. SFU-144 is from a prehistoric feature, and the modern date must reflect recent contamination.

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