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- Lab number
- Beta-240240
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Taxa dated
- Betula
- Locality
- Tall Yukon River cutbank downstream from Montauk Bluff, across from Trout Creek mouth. Yukon-Charley Rivers Rivers National Preserve. Interior Alaska.
- Submitter
- Jeff Rasic, NPS
- Uploader
- A. Martindale
- Date uploaded
- March 23, 2015
- Measured Age
- 920 ± 40
- Significance
- culture? (unknown)
- Comments
- Identified as birch by the PaleoResearch Institute (Colorado). The site is located in the upstream and upper portion of the cutbank. The only feature present is a layer of charcoal and calcined bone. It is assumed that the flakes located on the slope are coming out of the same layer. 6-7m east of the hearth location a flake-like piece of cobble stone with primary geologic cortex was located. The slope is covered with noticeable amount of fire-cracked rock. Scraping the profiles with a trowel yielded 5m further west part of a moose jaw and pallet. Chert can be found about half way down the hill from the hearth, and includes black, black-gray, and coarse pink quartzite (?). Both stream rolled and PG cortex were present; flakes are from primary reduction, 3-5 cm in size. Bone and charcoal samples were collected. Three test pits dug above the site on the terrace yielded nothing. It is thus speculated that most of the site has eroded away onto the cutbank.