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- Lab number
- Beta-66336
- 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
- 7990 ± 60
- Significance
- geochronology, palaeobiology
- Comments
- Described in Vinson's 1993 work: "Faunal specimen, from dark brown peat deposit, 0.9 m below surf; Caribou, two conjoined fragments of the proximal portion of the innominate incl half the acetabulum, 11.3 cm x 3.64 cm x 2.55 cm, 17 g; the item is dark brown with vivianite adhering to it, the bone is weathered with dessication fractues and areas of corrosion." Sample submission sheet notes under evidence of contamination that the bone was "impacted with peat". 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.