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Canada / SK / FaNp-9 (Bill Richards) / S-2884
- Lab number
- S-2884
- Field number
- CMC-1369
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. metacarpal (267 g)
- Locality
- immediately south of Saskatoon in a cultivated field, South Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 73 B/02
- Submitter
- J.T. Finnigan
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 820 ± 110
- Normalized Age
- 900 ± 110
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Plains, Prairie, anomalous, old; Sylvicole, anormal, vieux
- Context
- unit 66s/54w, 46 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp
- Comments
- FaNp-9, Bill Richards: This is a late prehistoric bison pound and processing area thought to be related to the Mortlach Phase. The occupation layer is a thick, black soil layer which is overlain by a 40 cm thick level of yellow sand. A bison metacarpal from the top of the black soil layer provided a date. J.T. Finnigan notes that the date is older than expected, an opinion supported by a thermoluminescence date about 500 years younger than S-2884 (J. Finnigan, p.c. 1993).