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Lab number
I-12481
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
ridge overlooking the Ausable River, Middlesex County, Ontario
Map sheet
40 P/04
Submitter
I. Kenyon
Date submitted
February 28, 0097
Normalized Age
2360 ± 90
Significance
Late Archaic, Broadpoint, anomalous, young; Archaïque supérieur, anormal, jeune
Context
Unit 2, Feature 1
Associated taxa
see WAT-23079
Comments
AgHk-16, Adder Orchard: Bill Fox and Ian Kenyon obtained two dates from test pits at this site. Kenyon notes that I-12481 corresponds to the Early-Middle Woodland transition, but no pottery was found; the discrepancy is unexplained. A 1989 excavation uncovered 25 features in Grid A, the northern concentration, and two features in Grid B. Three more dates were obtained from the Waterloo laboratory. Cooper and Savage (1994: 1) report that excavation of ca. 2% of this disturbed 5000 sq m site yielded only 21 faunal specimens from three screened features and none from the flotated fraction. All were mammal, and their association with the Archaic occupation is uncertain.

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