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- Lab number
- SFU-382
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. (id. by J.C. Driver)
- Locality
- north side of Stoddart Creek, northwest of Fort St. John, Peace drainage, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 94 A/07
- Date submitted
- August 5, 0096
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 4270 ± 160
- Significance
- Oxbow?
- Stratigraphic component
- Component 7
- Context
- subzone IVa, component 7
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date is corrected for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- HbRf-39, Charlie Lake Cave: Three seasons of fieldwork at this site have revealed a sequence of stratified deposits that spans the Late Pleistocene and entire Holocene. Analysis of sediments, radiocarbon dates, faunal remains, and artifacts show that the site was first occupied by people at about 10,500 BP, when local environments were more open than today. By 9500 BP, boreal forest had moved into the area, and human use of the site was minimal until about 7000 BP, when a brief occupation of the site probably included a human burial. Use of the site intensified after about 4500 BP, possibly because the cave became more accessible. The site was used both as a residential base camp and as a more temporary hunting station or lookout. Subzone and component designations follow Driver, et al. (1996: Table 1). Fauna: Mammalia: Castor canadensis, Tamiasciurus sp, Marmota monax, Tamias minimus, Lepus americanus, Myotis sp; Aves: Aechmophorus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Cygnini, Anserini, Anas crecca, Anas platyrhynchos, Bucephala sp, Melanitta fusca, Oxyura jamaicensis, Mergus sp, Lophodytes cucullatus, Tetraoninae, Larus sp, Ectopistes migratorius, Strigiformes, Hirundo rustica; Reptilia: Serpentes