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- Lab number
- CAMS-13189
- Field number
- AMS
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Taxa dated
- Cervidae antler
- Locality
- on a small island in the middle of the large northwestern lobe of Wapisu Lake, Churchill drainage, Manitoba
- Map sheet
- 63 O/14
- Submitter
- E.L. Syms
- Date submitted
- June 22, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1750 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -21.3
- Significance
- Woodland, Laurel; Sylvicole
- Context
- cairn burial, an antler handle bearing a zoomorphic carving resembling a sturgeon
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Homo sapiens, Castor canadensis, Erethizon dorsatum, Alces alces; Pisces (unid.); Mollusca, Prunum apicinum
- Comments
- GkLt-20, Wapisu Cairn: Feature 1, a severely eroded rock cairn, contained the remains of a child 5-8 years of age, and an infant less than one year of age. The bodies had been placed either on a birch bark lining or within birch bark wrappers that have partially decayed, and red ochre was employed in the burial rites. Accompanying grave goods included a carved antler object that may have functioned as a scraper handle, bearing a zoomorphic carving that appears to depict a sturgeon. There were bone needles or awls, shell beads, a single bone disk bead, a chert flake, a worked porcupine mandible, an ochre-stained beaver incisor, three moose incisors, some unmodified fish bones, and bands of thinned, elaborately decorated antler. The shell beads were made from plum margin shells (Prunum apicinum) that originated on the Atlantic coast south of South Carolina, or in the Gulf of Mexico. All of the remains have since been reburied.