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- Lab number
- OxA-385
- Material dated
- moose bone collagen; collagène osseux d'orignal
- Taxa dated
- Alces alces
- Locality
- Winnipeg drainage, Manitoba
- Map sheet
- 62 I/08
- Submitter
- A.P. Buchner
- Date submitted
- April 4, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 920 ± 100
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- context unknown
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Alces alces
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- EbLb-no #, Lac du Bonnet: An interesting bone is described by A.P. Buchner and L. Roberts. Over the last 35 years the Lac du Bonnet "elephant" bone has repeatedly been cited as possible evidence for the contemporaneity of man and mammoths and mastodons in this part of the North American continent. It presented several problems, however: lack of assurance that the bone was worked green rather than some period after the death of the animal; the presence of glacial Lake Agassiz over the site until a time more recent than the generally accepted date for the extinction of these animals; and the absence of evidence of Clovis Culture - the only commonly recognised elephant hunting complex - from this area. Since its discovery the specimen has been kept under rather tight security and only casts were displayed and circulated. The very recent date called the identification into question and prompted re-examination. The bone appears to be that of a large adult male moose (Alces alces). The clearly visible sutures, which did not reproduce well in the casts, are indicative of a cranium, probably where the frontals and parietals join. The depressions of the under surface relate to the cranial vault. The middle and tapering sections are antler with the area of the pedicle worn smooth. The tapered point is probably the first tyne off the palmate section of the antler. Indirectly accelerator dating has served to remove this anomaly from the body of data concerning Early Man in the New World.