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Lab number
S-3665
Field number
RR-97-25
Material dated
bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
Taxa dated
Bison sp. bone fragments (id. by R.E. Morlan)
Locality
about 5 km south of Ste. Agathe, about 40 km south of Winnipeg, about 228 m asl, in the Red River valley, Manitoba
Map sheet
62 H/11
Submitter
E. Nielsen
Date submitted
August 18, 0098
Measured Age
2650 ± 80
Normalized Age
2770 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-17.4
Significance
culture?
Context
silty and silty clay alluvium, 80 cm depth, in a freshly dug 5 m deep borrow pit, associated with an aboriginal hearth and a side-notched projectile point
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Bison sp
Comments
DjLh-4: Comment by R.E. Morlan: This sample of bison bone fragments included portions of a right ankle assembly of a bull (distal tibia, lateral malleolus, talus, calcaneus, tarsal C+4), distal metatarsal, humerus shaft, and miscellaneous long bone and rib fragments. Some of these are not identifiable, but their association with the definite bison bones renders it likely that they represent the same species, perhaps the same individual animal. The bones exhibit almost no evidence of subaerial weathering and only very minor root-etching. There is no evidence of gnawing by rodents or carnivores. Some of the very robust long bone fragments appear to have been fractured when fresh, and they could reflect human butchery practices such as marrow retrieval. However, the evidence has been obscured by recently inflicted damage caused by vigorous excavation methods.

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