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Lab number
Beta-240239
Material dated
Charcoal
Taxa dated
Abies
Locality
Yukon River bank near Kandik River mouth. Yukon-Charley Rivers Rivers National Preserve. Interior Alaska.
Submitter
Jeff Rasic, NPS
Uploader
A. Martindale
Date uploaded
March 23, 2015
Measured Age
970 ± 40
Significance
Historic Athabascan?
Comments
CHR 037 is a two loci site situated on a Y3 terrace on the south bank of the Yukon River. Vegetation is fairly dense, consisting of lowland spruce hardwood forest, with grasses, rosebush, horsetail and mosses characterizing the surface vegetation.Locus A, the easternmost locus, consists of three subtle but discernable subrectangular shallow depressions measuring about 2.5 x 3.5 m. No cultural material was found in a total of 16 shovel tests inside and outside of these features, although the humic soil development was noticeably thinner within the features than outside of them. Locus B consists of one definite rectangular depression measuring 2 x 3 m, and one subtle subrectangular depression measuring 3 x 4 in. A 50 x 50 cm test pit excavated in the southeast quadrant of the smaller depression revealed large amounts of fire-cracked rock and scattered charcoal.

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