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Canada / SK / FbNp-10 (Red Tail) / S-3373
- Lab number
- S-3373
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. scapula, vertebra, rib, and long bone fragments
- Locality
- just north of Saskatoon, on the left bank of the South Saskatchewan River, within Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 73 B/02
- Submitter
- C. Ramsay
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 3470 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 3570 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -18.8
- Significance
- Middle Archaic, Hanna; Archaïque moyen
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 12a
- Context
- Level 12a, unit 121n/110e, Ahkb24, very dark grey sandy loam, 114-116 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison bison 448, Canis sp 2, Vulpes vulpes 1, Lepus townsendii 1, Spermophilus richardsonii 1, Tamias minimus 1, Microtus sp 1, Peromyscus maniculatus 2, Reithrodontomys megalotis 1; Amphibia: Anura 3; Pisces 3; Mollusca: Unionidae 3, Gastropoda 7
- Comments
- FbNp-10, Red Tail: A 50 square metre excavation block penetrated 15 occupation levels, and seven dates have been obtained on samples of bison bone from Hanna and McKean components analyzed by Ramsay (1993). Avonlea, Besant and Pelican Lake materials occur in higher levels, but specific cultural assignments have not been completed. Level 11 is a Hanna component with one date (S-3372). Two dates on subdivisions of Level 12 (S-3373, S-3008) can be averaged for the age of a second Hanna component. Level 13 is stratigraphically complex and has been subdivided into four provisional sublevels that contain the McKean cultural record at this site. Sublevel 13b has two dates (S-3374, S-3375) that can be averaged. Sublevel 13d provided a single, much older date (S-3009) that cannot be averaged with the dates from Sublevel 13b. At the bottom of the excavation is Level 15 with no diagnostic artifacts but one radiocarbon date (S-3007).