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- Lab number
- S-2193
- Field number
- CMC-1240
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the northwest shore of Mosquito Lake, 302 m asl, overlooking a caribou water crossing, Dubawnt drainage, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 65 L/12
- Submitter
- B.C. Gordon
- Date submitted
- August 17, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3550 ± 125
- Normalized Age
- 3550 ± 125
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau, Prédorsétien
- Context
- hearth, 1 m in diameter, 10-15 m from stratified bank, 5 cm depth
- Comments
- KdLw-1, Mosquito Lake Overlook: This is a multicomponent site with the bottom level throughout the site representing the Palaeoeskimo Arctic Small-tool tradition. Higher levels contain materials of the Taltheilei tradition capped by historic Chipewyan occupations. Shield Archaic artifacts also occur on the surface.