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- Lab number
- GX-1460
- Material dated
- bone apatite; apatite osseux
- Locality
- Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 82 H/04
- Submitter
- B.O.K. Reeves
- Date submitted
- March 6, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3645 ± 210
- Normalized Age
- 3890 ± 215
- δ13C (per mil)
- -10.0
- Significance
- Archaic, McKean; Archaïque
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 1
- Context
- Level 1, including Paleoindian, Mummy Cave, and McKean material
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date was not corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- DgPl-1: This multicomponent site contains "closely, vertically superimposed living floors" (Reeves, 1972: 55). It was buried by slowly accumulating colluvium, yielding very low resolution, and its integrity has been impaired by bioturbation from rodent activity and tree roots. Two levels are generally recognizable with the lower Level 1 below 20 cm depth in Unit B colluvium, while Level 2 occurs in the upper 20 cm of the colluvium. Reeves (1972: 56, 58) subdivides the levels when presenting the projectile points but makes no such distinctions for less diagnostic materials. Most of the points in Level 1 are classified as Bitterroot and Salmon River types, representing the local Bellvue Hill phase, and this accounts for the assignment of GX-1460 to the Mummy Cave series (Reeves, 1973: 1242) although the date is anomalously young. Reeves (1972: 56) originally reported GX-1460 as a date on McKean points, and that association is given here. GX-2016, from Level 2, is thought to date Plains side-notched points belonging to the local Pass Creek Valley phase.