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Canada / AB / DlOp-2 (Ross Glen) / GX-5892G
- Lab number
- GX-5892G
- Material dated
- bone collagen; collagène osseux
- Locality
- overlooking Bullshead Creek, in suburban Medicine Hat, South Saskatchewan drainage, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 72 E/15
- Submitter
- J.M. Quigg
- Date submitted
- January 12, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1330 ± 160
- Significance
- Woodland, Besant; Sylvicole
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 1
- Context
- level 1, 66 g from the site-wide scatter plus 25 g from ancillary feature 3
- Additional information
- GX-5892A measured apatite from this sample: 1485 +/- 165 BP, normalized.
- Comments
- DlOp-2, Ross Glen: This site consisted of 17 stone circles and 42 ancillary features that were salvaged in advance of subdivision development. The prairie-level setting precluded deep burial, and most of the tipi ring stones were still exposed at the surface. Nearly all of the recovered organic material consisted of small bone fragments that were sacrificed for radiocarbon dates. The Oxbow-Mummy Cave affiliation listed by Brumley and Rushworth (1983: 151) for RL-1585 is not a secure association. Whereas the sample was obtained from ancillary feature 12, the only Oxbow point was found 2 m north of ancillary features 16 and 36, and the only Mummy Cave point, classified as Bitterroot, occurred in stone circle 13 located 14 m south of the radiocarbon sample. Most of the tipi rings and artifacts are believed to represent a Besant occupation, possibly with two bands present simultaneously. One Besant point was directly associated with highly fragmented pottery. The nature of the tool assemblage, the abundant fire broken rock, and the exposed location on the prairie suggests that the site was occupation in the fall season.