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Lab number
S-2179
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
7010 ± 1560
Normalized Age
7010 ± 1560
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Archaic, Mummy Cave; Archaïque
Stratigraphic component
Level 26
Context
Level 26, 2.6 m depth
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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