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- Lab number
- Beta-6409
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- East Dam Site E, drainage ditch at the base of the east slope, Forty Mile Coulee, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 E/11
- Submitter
- M.C. Wilson
- Date submitted
- January 13, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1190 ± 230
- Normalized Age
- 1270 ± 230
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Context
- drainage ditch, 75 cm depth
- Comments
- DjOu-no #: Two bone samples from the wall of the ditch were dated by radiocarbon. Their ages are reversed in relation to their stratigraphic positions, possibly because slope wash has moved older sediments on top of younger ones. It is not known whether either sample is related to human activity.