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Lab number
WAT-999
Material dated
mammoth bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammouth
Taxa dated
Mammuthus primigenius tusk
Locality
15 km north of Stratford, Perth County, Ontario
Map sheet
40 P/11
Submitter
J.H. McAndrews
Date submitted
May 5, 0098
Normalized Age
10790 ± 150
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
27 cm depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Mammuthus primigenius
Additional information
It is assumed that this date is corrected for isotopic fractionation.
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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