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Canada / AB / DjOn-26 (Stampede) / S-731
- Lab number
- S-731
- Field number
- CMC- 571
- Material dated
- charcoal and charred bone; charbon de bois et os carbonisé
- Locality
- base of the north slope of Cypress Hills, 1237 m asl, on south edge of a glacial meltwater channel, 1.6 km east of Elkwater Lake, southeastern Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 E/09
- Submitter
- E. Gryba
- Date submitted
- January 5, 0098
- Measured Age
- 7245 ± 255
- Normalized Age
- 7245 ± 255
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Archaic, Mummy Cave; Archaïque
- Stratigraphic component
- Component B12A
- Context
- hearth in Area B, Layer 12A, composite sample: around stake 11E/22S; northeast quad 11E/22S; northwest quad 12E/22S, all at 350 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp, Cervus elaphus, Spermophilus sp
- Additional information
- Wilmeth lists this site as DjOn-117.
- Comments
- DjOn-26, Stampede: This is a deep, well stratified, multicomponent camp site on the floodplain of a small creek. The matrix consists of fine sand and sandy clay with thin Ah soil horizons associated with occupation debris. Recognized components include Besant, Pelican Lake, Oxbow, and Mummy Cave complexes, the latter dated by S-731. The dated sample was 50 cm below Mazama tephra.