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- Lab number
- GaK-2335
- Field number
- CMC- 249
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- an eroded terrace spur facing a spring-fed creek feeding into Marron Lake, Okanagan Valley, Columbia drainage, British Columbia
- Map sheet
- 82 E/05
- Date submitted
- March 18, 0098
- Date uploaded
- February 14, 2020
- Measured Age
- 260 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 2580 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Shuswap
- Context
- partially cemented grey and compacted sand associated with faint traces of a hearth, XU 0S/18E, west half, 42-55 cm depth
- Comments
- DiQw-2, Marron Valley: GSC-998 provides an earliest date for the housepit occupation, and probably is near the terminal date, if not later than, the period of microblade manufacture at this site. Cores and microblades found in housepit fill apparently derive from land clearing and levelling operations. The hearth feature with which GaK-2335 was associated lay upon a well-cemented carbonate sand zone; the matrix of the bone and hearth features was a partially cemented grey and compacted sand. Microblades were found at the level of the bone feature (ca 42 cm) to depths of 80 cm, with chipping waste, flake implements and choppers. Projectile points of Group IIb were found from the surface to the basal level of the hearth and bone features. The date is a reasonable one, and is commensurate with others of the Interior Plateau for the latest known periods of microblade manufacture (Borden 1962) at Natalkuz Lake, British Columbia. Grabert (1974: 37) mentions that "a considerable quantity of food bone was recovered," but no faunal analysis has appeared.