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Lab number
WSU-2532
Material dated
Sediment
Locality
On the shores of Kurupa Lake, in 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
3540 ± 80
Significance
AST (Arctic Small-tool)
Context
Level 2 (10-20 cm below surface) within a red-brown soil matrix. The test unit was within the perimiter of the surface tent ring.
Comments
The sample is from a presumed ASTt house feature that was directly below a tent ring. Sample contained "small chunks of charcoal mixed in soil." It was associated with "microblades, blades, blade-like flakes, a burin, retouched and used flakes, and one obsidian flake. Both sets of artifacts are typical of assemblages of the early Arctic Small Tool tradition..." (Schoenberg 1985:89).

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