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Lab number
AECV-10CX
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
west side of Brule Lake at Swan Landing, in the Athabasca River valley between Hinton and Jasper, Alberta
Map sheet
83 F/05
Submitter
B.F. Ball
Date submitted
February 8, 0098
Measured Age
8630 ± 100
Normalized Age
8630 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
Stratigraphic component
Level 32
Context
Level 32
Comments
FhQl-4, Swan Landing: A thick section was exposed in a cutbank apparently formed by gravel and sand quarrying for road or railway construction. Lithic artifacts were found in three stratigraphically separate positions: Levels 16-17, 26-27, and 33, at depths of 1.6, 2.6, and 3.3 m, respectively. Ball (1986b) does not assign typological labels to the two projectile points recovered from this sequence. The point from Level 33 appears to be a reworked, stemmed, lanceolate point belonging to the late Palaeoindian period, while the point from Level 26 is a large side-notched specimen that might fit within the Mummy Cave series. Radiocarbon dates from other levels can be considered to have geoarchaeological significance.

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