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Lab number
L-797
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus antler
Locality
south of Longview, on Pekisko Creek, a tributary of Highwood River, in the Bow drainage, Alberta
Map sheet
82 J/08
Submitter
M.C. Wilson
Date submitted
March 6, 0098
Measured Age
2440 ± 110
Normalized Age
2520 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Archaic, Pelican Lake; Archaïque
Context
contact of overbank and colluvial silt on cobble gravel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Bison bison, Rangifer tarandus, Odocoileus sp, Taxidea taxus, Canis familiaris, Castor canadensis, Thomomys sp (intrusive), Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus columbianus (intrusive); Aves, Pedioecetes phasianellus
Additional information
It is assumed that this date was not corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
Comments
EcPn-2, Cattle Baron: Wilson (1983a: 300-301) cites RL-797 as a date marking the changeover from aggradation to incision and abandonment by the creek at this site. However, neither date has been fully reported.

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