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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.