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- Lab number
- AA-1219
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison bison cf. occidentalis tibia
- Locality
- Peace River bank south of Clayhurst, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 94 A/01
- Date submitted
- June 16, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 10600 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -19.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- fluvial gravel and sand, 116 m lower than local minimum strandlines of Clayhurst stage of Glacial Lake Peace, 86 m below Indian Creek stage of lake
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- HaRa-VP, Clayhurst Gravel Pit: Four AMS dates were run on the left tibia. A bison scapula collected from the same site by Peter Bobrowsky was also dated (AECV-1558C). This skeleton represents the most complete late Pleistocene bison so far reported in Canada. In contrast to McDonald (1981)... we prefer to view western bison (B.b. occidentalis) as stemming from steppe bison (B. priscus) which may have survived in the northern Yukon until about 12,000 yr BP.... Like other bison, western bison probably fed mainly on grasses, forbs, and sedges.