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- Lab number
- Beta-173610
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison bison
- Locality
- South Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- FIX
- Submitter
- L.J. Amundson
- Date submitted
- March 8, 2006
- Normalized Age
- 8400 ± 70
- Significance
- Palaeoindian, Plano; Paléoindien
- Stratigraphic component
- Layer 8
- Context
- Layer VIII, 158-168 cm depth, with debitage, bison, fish, grouse, and rabbit bones
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison bison, Lagomorpha; Aves: Galliformes; Pisces (unid.)
- Comments
- FfNk-7, St. Louis: This site is situated on a narrow terrace within the South Saskatchewan River valley. It was found by Amundson during a study of a bridge approach. Eight deep test pits encountered bison bones and debitage to a depth of >2 m. A detailed site evaluation found that the terrace consists of silty floodplain deposits, each capped by a thin, dark organic horizon, several of which contain cultural materials. Excavation of a 67 sq m block exposed Layer VII, 129-141 cm depth, a thin paleosol containing a scatter of faunal remains, fire-cracked rocks, and debitage associated with a small hearth. This layer yielded the basal half of a heavily ground lanceolate projectile point, damaged probably as a result of impact. Layer VIII, 18-28 cm deeper, and Layer IX, 17-22 cm below Layer VIII, also yielded faunal remains, but the latter may not be associated with cultural material. Four bison skulls are in the size range of extinct chrono-subspecies. Late Plano points have been surface collected in the area (Meyer, 1970; Meyer and Pettipas, 1977), but this is the first known site with such components preserved in situ.