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Canada / AB / FbOw-1 (Castor Creek) / n/a-47
- Lab number
- n/a-47
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- in a hanging valley about 15 m above the present floor of Castor Creek, a tributary of Battle River, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 73 D/05
- Submitter
- R.G. Forbis
- Date submitted
- March 12, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 4475 ± 1000
- Significance
- Archaic, Oxbow; Archaïque
- Comments
- FbOw-1, Castor Creek: The site was discovered while searching for the origin of a copper crescent found in the creek bed about 15 m downstream. The small artifact assemblage includes five Oxbow points, a small lanceolate point similar to McKean, and a larger lanceolate specimen.