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Canada / SK / EcNj-7 (Garratt) / S-406
- Lab number
- S-406
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- in Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw River, Qu'Appelle drainage, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 72 I/05
- Submitter
- G.C. Watson
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 1450 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 1450 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Avonlea; Sylvicole
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 6
- Context
- Level 6, paleosol in alluvium, unit 23C1, 0.79 m depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison bison 12, Spermophilus richardsonii 5, Vulpes velox 4, Mephitis mephitis 3, Canis lupus 2, Canis latrans 1, Canis sp 1, Erethizon dorsatum 1, Lepus townsendii 1, Thomomys talpoides 1, Castor canadensis 1, Odocoileus sp 1, Taxidea taxus 1; Aves 2; Mollusca 113: Unionidae, Sphaeriidae
- Comments
- EcNj-7, Garratt: The Garratt site yielded three principal occupation levels and a thin scatter of bones and artifacts on a fourth level. The site was excavated in 1966 with radiocarbon samples collected by G.C. Watson, and a detailed analysis was prepared by Morgan (1979). A plow zone was defined as Level 1, and underlying undisturbed materials as Level 2, but they were treated as a single late prehistoric component that yielded two Plains side-notched, 19 Prairie side-notched, and eight Plains triangular points (Morgan 1979: 263-267). Level 4 produced one Prairie side-notched point (Morgan 1979: 317). Level 6 contained 19 Avonlea side-notched, 29 Avonlea triangular, one Besant side-notched, and one unclassified point (Morgan 1979: 318-323). "Carbon" from a fire pit extending from Level 6 into Level 7 yielded an anomalous age (S-407). Level 8 contained three Besant side-notched points (Morgan 1979: 366) and yielded a radiocarbon date (S-409). The date list reports the Garratt series as charcoal samples but omits S-407. In Morgan's (1979: 246) listing, S-408 is misprinted as 2180 +/- 60 BP.