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- Lab number
- n/a
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Locality
- near Byron, Genesee County, New York
- Map sheet
- a
- Submitter
- R.S. Laub
- Date uploaded
- January 15, 2020
- Date updated
- August 17, 0099
- Normalized Age
- 11200 ± 100
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Comments
- Hiscock: This is a 0.8 ha depression filled with Holocene peat and late Pleistocene spring deposits. The remains of at least eight mastodons, bones of caribou, stag-moose, giant beaver and California condor, and twigs, cones, seeds and pollen of many plants have been recovered. There are also chert artifacts, including several fluted points, but the exact relationship between the artifacts and bones is not yet clear. The most direct evidence of a date associated with human activity comes from a sample of a tool made on a mastodon rib (Laub et al., 1996). A number of other Pleistocene bone fragments are also considered to be culturally modified (Tomenchuk and Laub, 1995). Some of the mastodon bones appear to have been gnawed by carnivores (Laub, 2001).