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Lab number
BGS-728
Material dated
bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
Taxa dated
Bison sp. atlas and calcaneus
Locality
Porcupine Hills, 6.4 km west of Bowsman, Bowsman River, Manitoba
Map sheet
63 C/03
Submitter
E. Nielsen
Date submitted
April 18, 0098
Measured Age
5350 ± 120
Normalized Age
5430 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
very hard silt and clay exposed in a roadside ditch, the hardness perhaps due to pedogenesis in an alluvial fan, 1 m depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Bison sp
Additional information
It is assumed that this date was not corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
Comments
FbMh-VP, Bowsman: M.C. Wilson examined the bison bones and determined that they are typical for a mid- to late Holocene female bison.

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