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Canada / AB / DlPa-4 (Woodpecker Island Bluff) / GSC-1233

Lab number
GSC-1233
Material dated
wood; bois
Locality
right bank of Oldman River, about 760 m asl, 4.8 km north of Taber, Alberta
Map sheet
82 H/16
Submitter
A.M. Stalker
Date submitted
December 30, 0087
Measured Age
0
Normalized Age
0
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
Context
sandy alluvium (Unit F, Taber section) beneath one till sheet (Unit G), about 30 m above the river
Comments
DlPa-4, Woodpecker Island Bluff: The Chalk River and Oxford accelerator dates are among several lines of evidence demonstrating a Holocene age for the Taber Child. GSC-1233 had been thought to be from the bed that yielded the skeletal remains, and it was believed to give minimum age for the bones (Stalker, 1977). It also indicated the existence of only a single Late Wisconsinan till sheet in area.

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