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- Lab number
- Beta-49164
- Material dated
- Bone collagen
- 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
- 3425 ± 60
- Significance
- geochronology, palaeobiology
- Context
- Surface collection. From deflated context in "North Dune Blowout".
- Comments
- Sample was collected from surface in 1991 by Spearman and Birkedal. Described in a 1993 report by Vinson as caribou and as a "combined caribou" sample, meaning presumably that more than one bone was used. FS#8 was located in a blowout basin north of Dune Island A. Sample weight is 69.4 g. Sample submission sheet states: "Bone: Rangifer long bone fragments, metatarsal, ramus with molars, phalanx, astragalus, and radius." 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.