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Lab number
S-1372
Material dated
bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
Taxa dated
Bison sp. femur
Locality
on Lac des Arc, Bow valley, about 2 km west of Exshaw, Alberta
Map sheet
82 O/03
Submitter
J.M. Quigg
Date submitted
January 23, 0098
Measured Age
370 ± 80
Normalized Age
450 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
culture?
Stratigraphic component
Level 1
Context
cultural level 1, in reddish-orange sandy soil, 31 cm depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Bison bison, Canidae, Cervidae? (deer?)
Comments
EgPt-6: The site is on the north side of the lake in a silt-filled bedrock basin well above the present lake level. Quigg (1978a) identified a cultural component that he attributed to the Pelican Lake phase on the basis of a very fragmentary point base. The associated radiocarbon date (S-1372) is inconsistent with this attribution. Subsequent work by Newton (1991) included five backhoe tests that penetrated much deeper layers containing three cultural levels. It is not clear whether Newton's cultural level 1 is the same level that was dated by Quigg.

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