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Canada / SK / EeOi-11 (Heron Eden) / S-3118
- Lab number
- S-3118
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. (380 g, id. by M. Corbeil)
- Locality
- 13 km south and 1.6 km east of Prelate near the northwest edge of the Great Sand Hills, South Saskatchewan valley, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 72 K/11
- Submitter
- M.R. Corbeil
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 10210 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 10290 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoindian, anomalous, old; Paléoindien, anormal, vieux
- Context
- cultural layer, unit 100n112e, 22-30 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp
- Comments
- EeOi-11, Heron Eden: This site was discovered when Ruth and Fulton Heron found projectile points of the Eden-Scottsbluff complex eroding out on the surface. Excavations by the Southwest Chapter of the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society revealed that a 16x20 m area remains intact and contains a dark brown paleosol below the plow zone. Two complete points were recovered by excavation in the paleosol which also produced bones of a large form of bison. Bison bone fragments from the paleosol were sampled for three radiocarbon dates. Linnamae and Cazakoff (1990) note that S-3118 is older than expected. Corbeil's (1995) detailed analysis presents two additional dates (S-3308, S-3309) on unburned bison bone. Corbeil considers that an average of these two dates and S-3114 provides the best estimate of the age of the site. This is one of seven sites included in Leyden's study of southern Saskatchewan bison palaeoecology.