ABSTRACT: -Late Plano occupation at the St. Louis Site, FfNk-7, Central Saskatchewan: An archaeologist's adventures in the Early Holocene and media scrutiny.

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The St. Louis Site, FfNk-7, is located on a terrace of the lower South Saskatchewan River in central Saskatchewan. The site was discovered in the summer of 2002 while fulfilling the CRM requirements for Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation's proposed St. Louis Bridge. Buried by a series of over-bank, vertical accretion events, the site contains as many as thirteen cultural occupations between at least 8400 and 4590 BP. The stratigraphic column is over 2 m thick and contains numerous old soil horizons developed on massive, calcium carbonate-rich silt. Long-since abandoned, the terrace is a narrow remnant of a former flood plain, much of which has been eroded away by the meandering of the river channel. This former flood plain revealed evidence of repeated bison kill and butchery, as well as habitation events. Of specific interest to the current presentation are cultural layers VII and VIII. From Layer VII we recorded the remains of a short-lived hearth, a chipping station, bison remains including a skull whose horn core spread indicates an extinct species, fish and waterfowl remains and the base of a Late Plano projectile point. This layer has been radiocarbon dated using bone to a normalized age of 7810 +/- BP (Beta-173609). Layer VIII, with a radiocarbon age of 8400 +/- 70 BP (Beta-173610) contains the remains of bison, fish, rabbit, and grouse as well as a possible shell sequin

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