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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).

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