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Lab number
RIDDL-363
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus antler
Locality
a few kilometres west of the Yukon-N.W.T. boundary, Arctic Coast, northern Yukon Territory
Map sheet
117 A/16
Submitter
J. Cinq-Mars
Date submitted
May 6, 0097
Normalized Age
600 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Neoeskimo, Western Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
Context
NfVc-1: 2a
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Additional information
AMS date.
Comments
NfVc-1, Whitefish Station (west), comment by D.A. Morrison: this date is on an artifact obtained from a small Western Thule assemblage recovered by MacNeish (1956b), purportedly at Whitefish Station (west). It is within the dendrochronological range of Western Thule, and hence fully acceptable. Its significance is increased by the fact that it is the only Western Thule radiocarbon date not based on such problematic materials as sea mammal products or driftwood charcoal (see Morrison, 1989).

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