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- Lab number
- S-1372
- Material dated
- bison bone collagen; collagène osseux de bison
- Taxa dated
- Bison sp. femur
- Locality
- on Lac des Arc, Bow valley, about 2 km west of Exshaw, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 82 O/03
- Submitter
- J.M. Quigg
- Date submitted
- January 23, 0098
- Measured Age
- 370 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 450 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 1
- Context
- cultural level 1, in reddish-orange sandy soil, 31 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Bison bison, Canidae, Cervidae? (deer?)
- Comments
- EgPt-6: The site is on the north side of the lake in a silt-filled bedrock basin well above the present lake level. Quigg (1978a) identified a cultural component that he attributed to the Pelican Lake phase on the basis of a very fragmentary point base. The associated radiocarbon date (S-1372) is inconsistent with this attribution. Subsequent work by Newton (1991) included five backhoe tests that penetrated much deeper layers containing three cultural levels. It is not clear whether Newton's cultural level 1 is the same level that was dated by Quigg.