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Lab number
GSC-1944
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Taxa dated
(2.7 g)
Locality
North Saskatchewan River, 1220 m asl, south of Nordegg, 4 km west of forestry road bridge, Alberta
Map sheet
83 C/08
Submitter
B.O.K. Reeves
Date submitted
March 12, 0098
Measured Age
8030 ± 200
Normalized Age
8030 ± 200
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
culture?; Mazama
Context
hearth in buried Ah horizon 40 cm below Mazama? tephra, 2.8 m depth
Comments
FcQa-8: GSC-1944 dates a period of soil formation and surface stability during which human occupation occurred, following which was a period of rapid loess deposition.

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