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Lab number
GX-23599
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus
Locality
mouth of the Backhouse River, Arctic Coast, Yukon Territory
Map sheet
117 C/09
Submitter
G. Adams
Date submitted
August 4, 0098
Normalized Age
470 ± 60
Significance
Neoeskimo; Néoesquimau
Context
house feature
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Comments
NjVn-5, Backhouse River (71Y0): Salvage excavation by Parks Canada in a house feature yielded slate knives, bifaces, Thule pottery, a few bone artifacts, two wooden arrow shafts, an amber fragment, a flaked point, a large faunal assemblage, including baleen, leather and feathers, and a radiocarbon date.

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