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Canada / SK / EcNx-4 (East Pasture) / S-638
- Lab number
- S-638
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- 8 km northwest of Swift Current, 739 m asl, South Saskatchewan valley, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 72 J/05
- Submitter
- J.F.V. Millar
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 265 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 345 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Plains; Sylvicole
- Stratigraphic component
- Floor 1
- Context
- Floor I, eastern area, unit 77n/114w, 70-80 cm depth, in grey-yellow brown sand with bone and ochre patches
- Comments
- EcNx-4, East Pasture: This is a complex multi-component site with two excavation areas (eastern and western) that are only tentatively correlated with one another. A projectile point base from eastern area Floor I (J.S. Wilson 1972: Fig. 26c) resembles a Plains side-notched point, a type consistent with both the pottery and the radiocarbon date from this floor (S-638). S-639 was obtained for Level 2 from unit 70/143 in the western area, but no diagnostic artifacts were found in this level; Dyck (1983: 109) has suggested that this sample might date the Sandy Creek complex. Level 3 is immediately below Level 2, and unit 70/143 provided a second radiocarbon sample (S-637) attributed to the Oxbow complex. The only Oxbow point was recovered from Test Pit 18, several metres south of unit 70/143, requiring correlation between the point and the date over this distance. All three dates were based on insoluble collagen extractions from unidentified bone fragments.