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- Lab number
- S-3665
- Field number
- RR-97-25
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. bone fragments (id. by R.E. Morlan)
- Locality
- about 5 km south of Ste. Agathe, about 40 km south of Winnipeg, about 228 m asl, in the Red River valley, Manitoba
- Map sheet
- 62 H/11
- Submitter
- E. Nielsen
- Date submitted
- August 18, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2650 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 2770 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.4
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- silty and silty clay alluvium, 80 cm depth, in a freshly dug 5 m deep borrow pit, associated with an aboriginal hearth and a side-notched projectile point
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp
- Comments
- DjLh-4: Comment by R.E. Morlan: This sample of bison bone fragments included portions of a right ankle assembly of a bull (distal tibia, lateral malleolus, talus, calcaneus, tarsal C+4), distal metatarsal, humerus shaft, and miscellaneous long bone and rib fragments. Some of these are not identifiable, but their association with the definite bison bones renders it likely that they represent the same species, perhaps the same individual animal. The bones exhibit almost no evidence of subaerial weathering and only very minor root-etching. There is no evidence of gnawing by rodents or carnivores. Some of the very robust long bone fragments appear to have been fractured when fresh, and they could reflect human butchery practices such as marrow retrieval. However, the evidence has been obscured by recently inflicted damage caused by vigorous excavation methods.