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Canada / YT / MjVk-7 (Old Chief) / QU-770
- Lab number
- QU-770
- Field number
- NYRP-78-9
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- right bank of Porcupine River, on a high terrace at juncture with Old Chief Creek, 275 m asl, 12 km upstream from Old Crow, northern Yukon Territory
- Map sheet
- 116 O/12
- Submitter
- J. Cinq-Mars
- Date submitted
- June 16, 0097
- Measured Age
- 700 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 700 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- culture?, anomalous, young; anormal, jeune
- Context
- base of a cache or hearth pit, layer 2, square N4/E2, pre-dating housepit 1
- Comments
- MjVk-7, Old Chief: This site extends over about a 4 km segment of the terrace with a thin stratigraphic sequence containing three main levels, a series of ground caches and subterranean house structures. Materials recovered represent early contact transitional artifacts, a late prehistoric Athabaskan assemblage, and earlier components including a microblade-bearing horizon. Wilmeth (1978: 6-7): Cinq-Mars points out that both I-7784 and I-7785 were obtained from minimally disturbed portions of the same feature, which as suggested by more recent stratigraphic data, consists of a partly slumped platform hearth. The age determinations from these samples should date the initial occupation of housepit 1 which, incidentally, is probably not related to the microblade-bearing component found in other parts of the site. I-7784 must be discarded, and I-7785 is tentatively taken as an acceptable determination in view of the fact that each sample's provenience is stratigraphically under a range of cultural material which at nearby sites has been dated to between 1200 and 100 BP (see MjVl-1, MjVg-1).