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Lab number
S-463
Field number
CMC- 305
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on a hillside west of the lower end of Bloody Falls, Coppermine River, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
86 O/11
Submitter
R. McGhee
Date submitted
August 26, 0097
Measured Age
3330 ± 90
Normalized Age
3330 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau, Prédorsétien
Context
structure 1, square O-17, hearth in yellow sand, 55-60 cm depth
Comments
MkPk-3, Bloody Falls: The sampled section of the site has two stratified components. The upper consists of a large stone Thule culture house. The lower component belongs to a relatively late Pre-Dorset variant. S-463 is perfectly acceptable, dating the lower component. S-462 obviously does not date the lower component and either was contaminated by organic material washed down from the directly overlying Thule house floor or represents a Thule period occupation which was buried during later construction of the Thule house.

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