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Canada / SK / FhNa-61 (Gravel Pit) / S-2355
- Lab number
- S-2355
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- on the north bank of the Saskatchewan River, 346 m asl, about 2.8 km west and 5.2 km south of the town of Nipawin, within the reservoir of the Francois-Finlay Dam, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 73 H/08
- Submitter
- D. Meyer
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 815 ± 135
- Normalized Age
- 895 ± 135
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Laurel; Sylvicole
- Context
- cultural layer, Block 2 (unit 93-100n/111-117e, 114 g)
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 15: Castor canadensis 2, Muridae 1
- Comments
- FhNa-61, Gravel Pit: This site is not deeply buried and occupies a land surface that has been "available for occupation for at least 7000 years" (Klimko 1985b: 43). Most of the recovered projectile points belong to the Avonlea type, but McKean and Pelican Lake points were also found in excavation. Only 680 grams of bone were recovered from the entire site, and nearly half was sacrificed for two radiocarbon dates. S-2354 is a composite sample, because it combined bone from Excavation Block 5, where neither points nor potsherds were found, and Excavation Block 6, where an Avonlea point and a McKean point (but no pottery) were recovered. This sample is not clearly associated with any particular category of cultural material. S-2355, from Block 2, is associated with Avonlea points and a Laurel vessel.