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Canada / SK / FaNr-2 (Grandora) / S-542
- Lab number
- S-542
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- in a sand dune about 1.5 km north of Grandora and 19 km west of Saskatoon, Dunfermline Sand Hills, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 73 B/02
- Submitter
- I. Dyck
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 1560 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 1640 ± 65
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Besant; Sylvicole
- Context
- cultural layer in buried soil 61 cm below the surface near a hearth
- Comments
- FaNr-2, Grandora: Two complete and six broken Besant points were recovered from a single large excavation block. A radiocarbon date was obtained by insoluble collagen extraction from bone recovered from two adjoining excavation units in a buried soil 61 cm below the surface, associated with a hearth and occupation debris (S-542). During the excavation, the site was visited by E.A. Christiansen who sampled a deeper A-horizon, 1.4 m below the surface, that records a cessation of aeolian activity (S-489). Dyck (1972a: 6) notes that a few broken teeth and bones from this horizon may indicate an earlier cultural occupation.