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Canada / SK / EcNj-7 (Garratt) / S-408
- Lab number
- S-408
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- in Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw River, Qu'Appelle drainage, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 72 I/05
- Submitter
- G.C. Watson
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 1280 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 1280 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Avonlea; Sylvicole
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 6
- Context
- Level 6, paleosol in alluvium, unit 22L1, 0.67 m depth
- Comments
- EcNj-7, Garratt: The Garratt site yielded three principal occupation levels and a thin scatter of bones and artifacts on a fourth level. The site was excavated in 1966 with radiocarbon samples collected by G.C. Watson, and a detailed analysis was prepared by Morgan (1979). A plow zone was defined as Level 1, and underlying undisturbed materials as Level 2, but they were treated as a single late prehistoric component that yielded two Plains side-notched, 19 Prairie side-notched, and eight Plains triangular points (Morgan 1979: 263-267). Level 4 produced one Prairie side-notched point (Morgan 1979: 317). Level 6 contained 19 Avonlea side-notched, 29 Avonlea triangular, one Besant side-notched, and one unclassified point (Morgan 1979: 318-323). "Carbon" from a fire pit extending from Level 6 into Level 7 yielded an anomalous age (S-407). Level 8 contained three Besant side-notched points (Morgan 1979: 366) and yielded a radiocarbon date (S-409). The date list reports the Garratt series as charcoal samples but omits S-407. In Morgan's (1979: 246) listing, S-408 is misprinted as 2180 +/- 60 BP.