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- Lab number
- RL-867
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- grass-covered alluvial fan on the valley outwash terrace west of Iron Ridge, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 82 G/10
- Submitter
- B.O.K. Reeves
- Date submitted
- March 6, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2210 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 2290 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Archaic, Pelican Lake; Archaïque
- Context
- base of the Ah soil horizon with scattered butchered bison bones, fired rock, and artifacts
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison sp
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date was not corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- DjPp-5: Bison were killed here by driving them over the edge of the outwash plain above. The fall, 70 m, would have been crippling without the need for a pound. The carcasses were segmented and carried elsewhere for processing.