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Lab number
S-1922
Field number
CMC-1159
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on a local height of land, 740 m asl, on the Suffield Military Reserve, South Saskatchewan drainage, southeastern Alberta
Map sheet
72 L/10
Submitter
J. Finnigan
Date submitted
March 15, 0098
Measured Age
2715 ± 215
Normalized Age
2715 ± 215
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
culture?
Context
unit 1, center of tipi ring 46, feature 8, a burned stake, 10 cm depth
Comments
EdOp-1, British Block Cairn: The site consists of a large cairn and medicine wheel, a number of small cairns, and 51 tipi rings. It appears that occupation began during the middle prehistoric period and continued intermittently through the late prehistoric period. Noting that early point types such as Oxbow and McKean were as common in the top of the deposit as in the bottom, Forbis suggested that later peoples collected early specimens and deposited them as offerings. Perhaps disturbance by rodents influenced their final positions. Vickers reports that artifact sketches on the catalogue cards reveal many Oxbow and McKean points, Besant, Avonlea and Late Prehistoric specimens, but no obvious Pelican Lake points. The pattern of a long period of continuity in site use, beginning with Oxbow and declining with Pelican Lake, is comparable to the record from the Majorville Cairn (EdPc-1). However, the only radiocarbon date obtained from the British Block Cairn site corresponds most closely with the time of Pelican Lake.

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