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Lab number
GaK-1866
Field number
CMC- 240
Material dated
charred wood; bois carbonisé
Locality
on a moss-covered esker jutting out from the east side of the southern shore of Winter Lake, 4.6 m above a high lake level, in the Snare River drainage, Great Slave drainage, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
86 A/07
Submitter
W.C. Noble
Date submitted
September 23, 0097
Measured Age
1230 ± 180
Normalized Age
1230 ± 180
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
Context
log lying horizontally, Unit C, middle terrace, 15 cm depth
Comments
LcPc-7, Windy Point: Cultural materials came from a black sandy humus 5-8 cm thick overlain by 1.5 cm of gray-black moss and underlain by 17 cm of orange-brown B horizon devoid of artifacts. Beneath the B horizon are fine clay gumbo till and boulders. Noble's original age estimate (3000-2500 BP) was based on the presence of Arctic Small-tool points and scrapers as surface finds on the lowest terrace of the esker. Apparently increasing age is not directly correlated with higher terrace elevation at this site. There is no reason to suspect the date on typological or contextual grounds. However, GaK-1866 may date a forest fire that occurred several centuries after the occupation (Noble, 1971: 112).

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