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Canada / AB / FgQm-59 (Site 243R) / BGS-2031
- Lab number
- BGS-2031
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Jasper National Park, north bank of the Snake Indian River, Athabasca drainage, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 93 G/08
- Submitter
- C. Hudecek-Cuffe
- Date submitted
- May 28, 0099
- Measured Age
- 2648 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 2682 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -22.89
- Significance
- culture?
- Stratigraphic component
- Component 4
- Context
- component IV
- Comments
- FgQm-59, Site 243R: In cooperation with Parks Canada, the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, has excavated this deeply stratified, multicomponent site as a field school taught by Caroline Hudecek-Cuffe. After three seasons of excavation (1996-98), the recovered materials indicate occupations spanning the Early, Middle and Late Prehistoric periods. The upper occupations include hearth features, fired rock concentrations, and lithic concentrations of red ochre, quartz, and silicified siltstone. The middle and lower occupations are defined primarily by silicified siltstone/mudstone debitage and discrete lithic work station areas. The earliest component is defined by the presence of a Palaeoindian point base recovered from the same level as TO-6848 and CAMS-41241.