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- Lab number
- Beta-7838
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (11.12 g)
- Locality
- north shore of Lesser Slave Lake, on the first lake terrace east of the east boundary of Hilliard's Bay Provincial Park, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 83.0
- Submitter
- R.J. LeBlanc
- Date submitted
- August 17, 2004
- Normalized Age
- 0
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric, anomalous, young; Préhistorique récente, anormal, jeune
- Context
- hearth feature, N2/E29, N2/E30, level 2
- Comments
- GjPx-6, Hidden Creek: This is one of two stratified, multi-component sites discovered and excavated by R.J. Le Blanc on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake. Along with the Slump site, GiQa-3, it forms a cornerstone of Le Blanc's extensive archaeological study of the region. Considered along with many dozens of lesser sites, it provides evidence for contacts with the Taltheilei Tradition to the north and various Plains peoples to the south. Like the dates from the Slump site, the results of five radiocarbon assays "are also difficult to interpret" (Le Blanc, 2004: 129). The only charcoal sample produced a modern result, "likely because a burnt tree root was misinterpreted in the field as a valid sample for dating" (Le Blanc, 2004: 130). Of four dated bone samples, one was too small for a measurement of its C-13 ratio, and all have elevated standard deviations. Nonetheless, the dates from Level 3 indicate a pre-contact context, consistent with recovered projectile point types. Apparently the summary table of Hidden Creek faunal remains (Le Blanc, 2004: Table 32) omits several taxa that were present in the site, including moose, lynx, likely wolf, ... muskrat, and Microtus sp, for which level assignments are not provided (see Le Blanc, 2004: 128).