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Lab number
RIDDL-544
Material dated
moose bone collagen; collagène osseux d' orignal
Taxa dated
Alces alces axis
Locality
southern end of a large knoll complex, 0.5 km west of the Trail River, 11 km north of the river's emergence from the British Mountain foothills, northern Yukon Territory
Map sheet
117 D/03
Submitter
J. Cinq-Mars
Date submitted
May 6, 0097
Normalized Age
550 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Neoeskimo, Mackenzie Inuit; Néoesquimau, Inuit
Context
central hearth, feature 5.1, of a housepit (feature 5)
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Alces alces (see also RIDDL-365)
Additional information
AMS date.
Comments
NgVh-1, Trail River, comment by R. Le Blanc: the site consists of a caribou hunting camp located on the middle portion of the Trail River, Yukon Coastal Plain. RIDDL-365, -342, and -343 were obtained from specimens recovered from a semi-circular cobble structure which was probably a hunting blind. All three suggest a late prehistoric Mackenzie Inuit occupation. RIDDL-544 suggests a much earlier occupation than that which is indicated by the dates for Feature 1. It therefore implies intermittent reuse of the site over a period of several centuries, presumably by the Mackenzie Inuit.

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