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- Lab number
- GSC-1730
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (3.7 g)
- Locality
- north side of Athabasca River near outlet of Brule Lake, 993 m asl, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 83 F/05
- Submitter
- B.O.K. Reeves and N.W. Rutter
- Date submitted
- March 13, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2870 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 2870 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- within section of aeolian sand, 1.7 m depth, 3 m above beach sand, 5 m above lake level, with a hearth on top of red iron-stained sand beneath brown sand
- Comments
- FiQl-1: A prehistoric hearth was observed in a road cut. W. Blake, Jr. notes that the date provides a minimum age for the underlying Brule Lake beach and indicates a period of dune stability.