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- Lab number
- Beta-49166
- Material dated
- Antler
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer
- Locality
- In the Killik River Valley, east shore of the river. Gates of the Arctic National Park. Central Brooks Range, AK.
- Submitter
- Jeff Rasic, NPS
- Uploader
- A. Martindale
- Date uploaded
- March 23, 2015
- Measured Age
- 7060 ± 70
- Significance
- geochronology, palaeobiology
- Context
- Surface collection. From deflated context in dune blowout north of "Dune A".
- Comments
- Sample was collected from surface in 1991 by Spearman and Birkedal. Sample submission sheet describes sample as antler, but does not state whether it was one piece or several combined. Weight = 20.9 g. Evidence of contamination is noted as "grass rootlets (old?) observed in sandly deposit from which sample derives." The site consists of a large volume of FCR and faunal remains and some stone tools including lanceolate projectile points, a notched projectile point, microblade cores and microblades, and mitten-shaped burins. More than a dozen radiocarbon dates on bone range from 2530 to 8290 BP. The cultural materials are found largely in a deflated surface context, but intact stratified deposits remain.