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- Lab number
- I-12432
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (23.8 g)
- Locality
- north shore of Rice Lake, Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 D/01
- Submitter
- L.J. Jackson
- Date submitted
- April 13, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 3920 ± 90
- Significance
- Late Archaic; Archaïque supérieur
- Stratigraphic component
- Feature 28 a
- Context
- Feature 28a, 10-20 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odocoileus virginianus; Pisces: Ictalurus sp
- Comments
- BaGn-16, Dawson Creek: Salvage excavation beneath a plowzone revealed hearth and pit features whose contents and radiocarbon dates indicate site use by Late Archaic, Early Woodland, Middle Woodland and Late Woodland inhabitants. Cooper and Savage (1994: 24) report that salvage excavation in 1981 yielded 10047 mostly fragmentary, flotation-recovered specimens. They were primarily from a Late Woodland context and mostly from hearth features with 68% thermally altered. Bony fish accounted for 50%, excluding 2855 scales and vertebrae, and mammals 45%. Less than 9% of each class was identifiable to lower taxonomic levels. Heavy reliance on white-tailed deer and secondarily on muskrat was noted. The evidence does not support the "schlepp effect" for either. Six fish families were present, but no avian bone appeared. Evidence of butchering and skinning was absent. Subsistence and seasonality was analyzed for each feature and cultural period.