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- Lab number
- RIDDL-323
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus tibia (XI-C-538, with butchering marks)
- Locality
- on the south bank of Great Bear River, 11-12 m above river, 400 m below Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 96 G/04
- Submitter
- J. Cinq-Mars, D.W. Clark
- Date submitted
- October 28, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 3890 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- Pit 2, S50/W45
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- LgRk-1, Great Bear River: The RIDDL dates are on caribou bones from the bottom of a small cache or storage pit previously dated by two samples of wood fragments lining the bottom of the pit, and the dates are in apparent agreement. They confirm the age of a somewhat poorly characterized complex, the Great Bear River complex, that MacNeish placed in the middle of a three-complex sequence beginning with Franklin Tanks and ending with N.T. Docks. The chronological precedence of Franklin Tanks in this sequence is based only on long distance stratigraphic correlations and tenuous typological comparisons. For all one knows, the Great Bear River complex could well represent the earliest phase.