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Canada / AB / FhQl-4 (Swan Landing) / S-2178
- Lab number
- S-2178
- 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
- 8675 ± 270
- Normalized Age
- 8675 ± 270
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoindian; Paléoindien
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 33
- Context
- Level 33, 3.3 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.