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Lab number
WAT-945
Material dated
mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
Taxa dated
Mammuthus primigenius scapula
Locality
15 km north of Stratford, Perth County, Ontario
Map sheet
40 P/11
Submitter
J.H. McAndrews
Date submitted
May 5, 0098
Measured Age
4290 ± 120
Normalized Age
4370 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie, anormal, jeune
Context
cultivated surface of a peaty swale
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Mammuthus primigenius
Additional information
The bone was decayed and spongy with rootlets evident, and it presented problems during pre-treatment of the sample.
Comments
AjHg-VP, Rostock: Mammoth remains, including a skull fragment with upper M2, a cervical vertebra, a scapula and a limb bone fragment, were found on the cultivated surface of a peaty swale. Excavation revealed tusk fragments at 27 cm depth, which is taken to be the original burial position. Bone collagen yielded an anomalously young age, whereas a date on tusk collagen is concordant with pollen evidence. Five sediment samples removed from cavities within the skull contained pollen spectra consistent with zones 1b and 2a, dated to late glacial time at the nearby Poole Farm section. Nineteen species of molluscs and 2000 individual insects from 16 families have also been recovered from this site.

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