CARD

Locality: on an island in Duck Bay, 252 m asl, on the western side of Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba
Map sheet: 63 C/01

Significance: Woodland, Blackduck; Sylvicole
Context: middle levels, with main concentration of ceramics
Associated taxa: Mammalia: Alces alces, Rangifer tarandus, Ursus americanus, Mustela vison, Mephitis mephitis, Lepus americanus, Castor canadensis, Peromyscus maniculatus, Ondatra zibethicus, Canidae; Aves, Gavia immer, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Cygnus buccinator, Cygnus columbianus, Branta canadensis, Anas platyrhynchos, Anas clypeata, Ardea herodias, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Icterus galbula; Pisces, Mollusca

Comments: FbMb-1, Aschkibokahn (or Duck River, or C3-MD-1): This site was excavated by J.S. Snortland-Coles in 1976 and by P. Badertscher in 1977. It suffers from compressed stratigraphy and may contain the remains of more than one occupation representing a considerable span of time. However, the entire record presumably relates to the Late Woodland period. Two ceramic styles, Blackduck ware and Duck Bay ware, may or may not be contemporaneous but both are representative of Late Woodland. Snortland-Coles (1979: 49) reports that DIC-845 and -846 may be affected by "the small size of the carbon samples (less than 10 grams) and the fact that the radioisotope laboratory which processed the samples suffered two power reductions necessitating recalibration of the equipment (Irene Stehli, personal communication)." These dates, from the middle levels of the site, are older than two dates (GX-5516, -5517) obtained by Badertscher from the lower levels of the site. Lenius and Olinyk assign these older two dates to the Rainy River composite. Fauna: Pisces: Esox lucius, Stizostedion vitreum, Catostomus commersoni, Perca flavescens, Coregonus clupeaformis;

Canada / MB / FbMb-1 (Aschkibokahn) / DIC-845