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Lab number
GaK-1881
Field number
CMC- 291
Material dated
wood; bois
Locality
south of Melita, on the right bank of Gainsborough Creek, Souris drainage, Manitoba
Map sheet
62 F/03
Submitter
R. Wilmeth
Date submitted
March 26, 0097
Measured Age
390 ± 90
Normalized Age
390 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Woodland, Blackduck; Sylvicole
Context
burial pole, base of mound, 50 cm long, 10-11 cm diameter
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Homo sapiens
Comments
DgMg-2, Mound G: Wood from a southern Manitoba mound was excavated by W.B. Nickerson in 1913 and 1914. Samples now at the Canadian Museum of Civilization were described by Capes (1963) and assigned to the Blackduck (Manitoba) focus by MacNeish (1954) or to "closely related peoples influenced by accumulated traits that reach back to Middle Woodland times" (Capes, 1963). Suggested dates are late prehistoric and early historic. Wood samples associated with three of Nickerson's mounds were submitted by R. Wilmeth in 1968 to test this conclusion. Wilmeth summarized the characteristics of Mound G: Mound 20" high and 33-39 ft in diameter. Untrimmed branches laid under mound. No primary internment, center disturbed. Fragment of human skull at depth of 2 ft. Small walled oblong rectangle attached to southeast of mound. See Capes (1963: 15-16, Fig. 7). Comment by Wilmeth on dates from Mound G, Heath Mound and Riverview Mound: date range indicates that the mounds were built over a longer period than originally thought. Two later dates (GaK-1881, -1882) are within Blackduck focus time range, but earliest date (GaK-1883) falls during the transition from Middle to Late Woodland. In view of the age of similar mounds in North and South Dakota (Neuman, 1967), the southern Manitoba mounds may represent a cultural tradition surviving from Middle Woodland to Historic times.

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