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Canada / AB / HcQh-6 (Pulp Mill) / AECV-578C
- Lab number
- AECV-578C
- Material dated
- sediment; sédiment
- Locality
- west bank of Peace River, 12 km north-northeast of the town of Peace River, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 84 C/06
- Submitter
- P.T. Bobrowsky
- Date submitted
- January 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 4390 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.1
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- 150 cm depth
- Comments
- HcQh-6, Peace River Pulp Mill: This is a multi-component prehistoric campsite. Four large backhoe trenches were excavated within the site limits. Trench #1 was located centrally within the planned limits of the water treatment facilities. Trench #2 was an L-shaped trench located northwest of #1. Trenches #3 and 4 were located north of the first trench. Bulk soil samples were removed at regular intervals vertically down the north face of Trench #1, and 49 bulk samples were removed from Trench #4. Palaeosol surfaces were traced, mapped and photomosaically studied along each trench face and along 90 m of riverbank exposure. Samples were taken from each palaeosol, as well as from intervening sediments between the palaeosols. Eighteen C-14 samples were obtained from the site. Laboratory analysis of the samples included particle size analysis, determination of % moisture content, % organic matter, % carbonate, and % total carbon. Geotechnical analyses included moisture content, liquid limit, plastic limit, plasticity index and liquidity index. No major buried soil surfaces were discovered. Bone, antler and organic sediment were recovered and dated. Episodic sedimentation at the floodplain site and C-14 analysis indicate that sporadic human occupation at this site began approximately 7300 +/- 110 years BP (AECV-583C). Prehistoric occupatin stopped approximately 3160 +/- 100 years BP (AECV-573C) at this site and 2670 +/- 110 years BP (AECV-584C) at the neighboring site HcQh-7. A total of 40 artifacts was retrieved from the site, including flakes, ground stone hammers, a uniface chopper and unaltered faunal material (elk). Note: some of these dates belong to HcQh-7, but all are listed by Beaudoin (1991) under HcQh-6.