CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
Canada / ON / AkGv-___8 (Parsons) / WAT-2871
- Lab number
- WAT-2871
- Material dated
- cultigen; cultigène
- Taxa dated
- carbonized Zea mays kernel
- Locality
- on a broad promontory overlooking Black Creek, a tributary of Humber River, City of North York, Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 30 M/13
- Submitter
- R.F. Williamson
- Date submitted
- February 16, 2006
- Normalized Age
- 860 ± 110
- Significance
- Late Woodland, anomalous, old; Sylvicole supérieur, anormal, vieux
- Context
- house 9, feature 170
- Associated taxa
- cultigen: Zea mays
- Comments
- AkGv-8, Parsons: The artifact assemblage from this late Iroquoian site suggests that the village was occupied around AD 1450. Three radiocarbon dates are consistent with this age, while one is anomalously old. An anomalously young date may reflect contamination by European cultigens.