CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
Lab number
S-2036A
Material dated
bone collagen; collagène osseux
Locality
on a terrace of the South Saskatchewan River, within the city limits of Saskatoon, about 70 m west of the Gowen 1 site (FaNq-25), Saskatchewan
Map sheet
73 B/02
Submitter
E.G. Walker
Date submitted
July 11, 0096
Measured Age
5080 ± 150
Normalized Age
5160 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Archaic, Mummy Cave, anomalous, young; Archaïque, anormal, jeune
Context
cultural layer in paleosol VAhkb, 69-78 cm depth
Comments
FaNq-32, Gowen 2: Most of the 75 projectile points fall within the range of the Salmon River type or the Gowen type, as defined by Walker (1980, 1992), but two Bitterroot and two Oxbow points were also found in situ in the habitation area (Walker 1988a: 70). S-2036B is from the same bone sample as S-2036A, but the former was given 1N HCl pretreatment that appears to have removed some contaminants. The best estimate of site age is given by an average of four dates that is concordant with an AMS date acquired by Leyden (2004) during his study of southern Saskatchewan bison palaeoecology.

References