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- Lab number
- Beta-11076
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Locality
- On the west side of Itkillik Lake. Northeast corner of the Gates of the Arctic National Park. Central Brooks Range, AK.
- Submitter
- Jeff Rasic, NPS
- Uploader
- A. Martindale
- Date uploaded
- March 23, 2015
- Measured Age
- 1290 ± 80
- Significance
- Ipiutak
- Context
- 1984 test pit, 50-60 cm below surface.
- Comments
- This stratified two-component site is located on a high bank rising about 5-6 m above the west shore of Itkillik Lake. Waste flakes, retouched flakes, worked bone and antler (an awl, wedge, leister prong, and needle), side blades, inset blades, end blades, flake knives, and points were locatd during surface reconnaissance and subsurface testing of deposits up to 55 cm deep. The sample was associated with an arrow point and an inominate bone.