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Canada / MB / DgMg-15 (Snyder II) / GSC-1546
- Lab number
- GSC-1546
- Field number
- CMC- 463
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the plain overlooking the confluence of Gainsborough Creek and Souris River, 450 m asl, Manitoba
- Map sheet
- 62 F/03
- Submitter
- E.L. Syms
- Date submitted
- March 28, 0097
- Measured Age
- 340 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 340 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Middle Missouri; Sylvicole
- Context
- Zone 15, Sq. VII, lowest hearth on floor of bell-shaped pit
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison bison, Canidae
- Comments
- DgMg-15, Snyder II: This site is located in the same field as Mounds A, B, C, and D (Capes, 1963), but a relationship to the mounds has not yet been demonstrated. Syms (1974) distinguished 15 stratigraphic zones within a bell-shaped pit and noted changes in activities reflected by their artifact content. Zones 9-15, the lower zones, contain two distinct hearths and several scattered ash concentrations in heterogeneous gravel, loam and refuse; tools are rare. Zones 3-7 consist of closely stratified, alternating hearths and gravel lenses, the hearths containing numerous artifacts and bison bones. Zones 1 and 2 contain a few sherds and lithics around the pit periphery. The only vessel represented by any large number of sherds is scattered throughout the pit. This is the justification for listing all finds in a single record in this data base, including the radiocarbon sample (Zone 15), the canid remains (Zones 11-15), and the bison bones (Zones 3 and 5).