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- Lab number
- Beta-49165
- 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
- 3380 ± 60
- Significance
- geochronology, palaeobiology
- Context
- Surface collection. From deflated context in blowout northeast of "Dune B."
- Comments
- Sample was collected from surface in 1991 by Spearman and Birkedal. Bone was identified by Dale Vinson ca. 1993 and came "from lag materials in a blowout context between the north ends of Dune Island B and Dune Island C" (Vinson 1993). Sample is described only as caribou antler, unstated whether it was one or several pieces. Sample weight is 138 g. 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.