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Canada / AB / GiQa-3 (Slump) / BGS-1928
- Lab number
- BGS-1928
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (9.0 g)
- Locality
- northwest shore of Lesser Slave Lake, in Hilliard's Bay Provincial Park, ca. 19 km southeast of the town of Grouard Mission, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 83 N/08
- Submitter
- R.J. LeBlanc
- Date submitted
- August 16, 2004
- Normalized Age
- 603 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.33
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- Level 2, from a hearth associated with burnt bone and fire-cracked rock
- Comments
- GiQa-3, Slump: This is one of two stratified, multi-component sites discovered and excavated by R.J. Le Blanc on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake. Along with Hidden Creek, GjPx-6, it forms a cornerstone of Le Blanc's extensive archaeological study of the region. Considered along with many dozens of lesser sites, it provides evidence for contacts with the Taltheilei Tradition to the north and various Plains peoples to the south. The results of four radiocarbon assays "were somewhat problematic, as none are consistent within stratigraphic levels" (Le Blanc, 2004: 96). The oldest date [BGS-1931], on a sample of bone fragments of minimum size, caused the laboratory to caution that it may be inaccurate. The youngest date [BGS-1929] spans the terminal part of the Late Prehistoric period and is consistent with the presence of late Plains point types. BGS-1930 may represent a reasonable estimate for Level 3 as it is consistent with recovered point types. At 2-sigma, it barely overlaps BGS-1928, a sample recovered from a hearth feature associated with burnt bone and fire-cracked rock and therefore likely to be fairly reliable (Le Blanc, 2004: 97).