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Lab number
TO-6854
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on the Eardley Escarpment, Gatineau Park, r. de Outaouais region, Québec
Map sheet
31 G/05
Submitter
E.M. Deschamps
Date submitted
February 13, 2001
Normalized Age
5020 ± 70
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
Stratum I, lower infill
Associated taxa
Mammalia, Sorex fumeus 1, Blarina brevicauda 6, Parascalops breweri 1, Condylura cristata 2, Myotis septentrionalis, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Eptesicus fuscus, Glaucomys sabrinus cf. 1, Peromyscus sp, Clethrionomys gapperi cf. 6, Ondatra zibethicus, Microtus pinetorum cf. 5, Microtus pennsylvanicus 2, Erethizon dorsatum 1, Canis latrans cf., Procyon lotor
Comments
BiFw-VP, Caverne de la Mine: This vertical cave served as an efficient animal trap throughout most of the Holocene. Two deposits, the upper and lower infill, contain vertebrate remains. Study of the upper infill revealed an essentially modern faunal assemblage (Carrier, 1989). However, the lower infill sequence, dated by four radiocarbon samples, reflects environmental changes with a predominantly boreal assemblage giving way to an increase in southern taxa.

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