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Canada / AB / DlPd-1 (Upper Kill) / GX-2295
- Lab number
- GX-2295
- Material dated
- charred bone; os carbonisé
- Locality
- head of a draw in the south bank of the Oldman River, a few hundred metres south of the Lower Kill, about 28 km northeast of Lethbridge, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 82 H/15
- Submitter
- R.G. Forbis
- Date submitted
- January 12, 0098
- Measured Age
- 855 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 935 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Avonlea?; Sylvicole
- Context
- cultural layer possibly containing a mixture of cultural materials
- Comments
- DlPd-1, Upper Kill: Forbis (1960) considered this an enigmatic site. Not only was its mode of operation as a kill site difficult to understand, but also its predominant projectile point style had not yet been named and dated. Forbis referred to the projectile points as the "Upper Kill type," but they have since been known as Avonlea points, a type named a year later. The exact provenience of a radiocarbon date listed by Byrne (1973: 630) has not been published but is reputed to be a mixed context (Morlan, 1988: 302).