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- Lab number
- Beta-139757
- Field number
- CMC-1539
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus radioulna (17.9 g)
- Locality
- an island in the lower Severn River, ca. 30 m asl, Kenora District, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 43 M/13
- Submitter
- J.-L. Pilon
- Date submitted
- November 2, 2001
- Measured Age
- 810 ± 40
- Normalized Age
- 910 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -18.4
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récent
- Context
- eroding from the base of a peat layer ca. 30 cm thick along the west side of an island
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 133, Rodentia 1, Rangifer tarandus 194, cf. Rangifer tarandus 249, Class uncertain 15
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- GlIw-5, Ile de l'Ourson 1: This is one of the few uses of Severn River islands and could very well document a particular caribou procurement strategy. Some calcined bone fragments were recovered, fire-cracked rock was noted and a lens of bone was observed at the base of the peat. Spiral fractures, polishing and stone tool cut marks were abundant on the bones.