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- Lab number
- S-2321
- Material dated
- bison and beaver bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison et castor
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. and Castor canadensis (152 g)
- Locality
- just downstream from the Bushfield West site (FhNa-10), Nipawin project, Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 73 H/08
- Submitter
- D. Meyer
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 175 ± 105
- Normalized Age
- 255 ± 105
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Pehonan; Sylvicole
- Context
- unit 500N/524E, stratum 4, adjacent to a hearth feature
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp, Castor canadensis
- Comments
- FhNa-13, Bushfield East: This site is assigned to the Pehonan complex on the basis of its pottery, and it also yielded Plains side-notched and Plains triangular projectile points (Meyer 1981a: 9-14). Unfortunately all of the side-notched points occurred in areas disturbed by bulldozing or cultivation, but two triangular points were closely associated with S-1331. A Pehonan complex sherd yielded a thermoluminescence date of 380 +/- 50 BP (Alpha-3033). S-2322, consisting of a paleosol sample marking the deepest of three levels, is thought to be too recent. Other sites in the area yield Middle Period remains at such depth (70-80 cm), and associated pollen suggests a parkland environment that should be older than 3500 BP (Finnigan, et al. 1983: 121).