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Lab number
TO-1026
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
Jasper National Park, on a terrace on the south and east side of the Athabasca River, Alberta
Map sheet
83 F/05
Submitter
T. Head
Date submitted
March 22, 0099
Normalized Age
7840 ± 70
Significance
culture?
Context
upper part of the culture-bearing zone
Comments
FhQl-?, Roche Miette (1340R): Rod Pickard and Daryl Fedje, Parks Canada archaeologists, identified this deep, well preserved stratigraphic section. Parks funded Bison Historical Services to investigate it. Obsidian artifacts are made of stone from the Edziza and Anahim sources in British Columbia.

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