@article {9844,
	title = {A Detailed Stratigraphy of the Woodpecker Island Section and Commentary on the Taber Child Bones},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {7},
	year = {1983},
	pages = {209-222},
	abstract = {<p>Excavations at the Woodpecker Island Site during the summer of 1979 have permitted a much more detailed description of the site\&$\#$39;s geology than was previously possible. The Taber Child bones came from alluvium in the lower part of a unit that records a transition from non-glacial sediments at the bottom to glacial outwash, combined with alluvium, at the top. These latter deposits were laid down close to an advancing glacier and are directly overlain by glacial deposits, including four till sheets of classical Wisconsin Age. Stratigraphy and the condition and preservation of the bones, along with type and cementation of the sand matrix that surrounded them, all indicate that the bones are old and were laid down before advance of the last glacier. Indeed, a source for the bones higher in the section seems precluded. The small amount of bone present, its porosity and the preservatives applied to it, debar its dating by normal radiocarbon or amino acid methods.</p>},
	author = {A. MacS. Stalker}
}
