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Canada / AB / EaOp-6 (Saamis) / S-824
- Lab number
- S-824
- Field number
- CMC- 635
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- in Medicine Hat, 670 m asl, on two terraces 1.5-3 km upstream from the entrance of Seven Persons Creek into the South Saskatchewan River, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 L/02
- Submitter
- L. Milne-Brumley
- Date submitted
- March 14, 0097
- Measured Age
- 435 ± 125
- Normalized Age
- 515 ± 125
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Old Women's; Sylvicole
- Context
- unit 73, SE quad, and XU 77, SE quad, Area C, 90 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison bison >100, Antilocapra americana 3, Odocoileus virginianus 1, Ursus americanus 1, Canis lupus 3, Vulpes vulpes 3, Spermophilus richardsonii 2, Lepus americanus 1; Aves: Aquila chrysaetos 1
- Comments
- EaOp-6, Saamis: This late prehistoric site consists of five areas designated A-E. Area B represents campsite activities with a number of basin hearths containing layers of fired rock. Area C is primarily a meat processing area, and Area E is thought to represent butchering and possibly meat processing and killing of bison. S-824 and S-827 are well within the expected time range, and they correspond to their stratigraphic positions. However, S-825 is too late, since stratigraphically and culturally it should fall in the same time period as S-824. [Note that the normalized age overlaps the estimate at 2-sigma.]