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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.