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Canada / AB / EdOn-7 (Shaw burial) / S-1017
- Lab number
- S-1017
- Field number
- CMC- 790
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. vertebra, scapula, metapodial (id. by J.H. Brumley)
- Locality
- in the Red Deer drainage, southeastern Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 L/09
- Submitter
- J. Brumley
- Date submitted
- March 22, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1390 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 1470 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- burial within and beneath medium-sized stone cairn
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp, Homo sapiens
- Comments
- EdOn-7, Shaw burial: The site consists of a single burial discovered and destroyed in the course of pipeline construction. A few stone tools, along with human and bison skeletal materials, were collected at the location. An examination of the site by Brumley, and talks with the original discoverers, indicate that the body was located within or beneath a medium-sized stone cairn, apparently constructed atop an early surface about 45 cm below the present ground surface. All of the recovered non-human bones were included in the radiocarbon sample. Lacking diagnostic artifacts, there is no basis for evaluating the date. However, the age suggests that the burial is probably attributable to either the Avonlea or the Besant phase.