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Lab number
GaK-1256
Field number
CMC- 160
Material dated
charcoal and burned bone; charbon de bois et os brûlé
Locality
on the northwest coast of Prince Albert Sound, about 16 km southeast of Holman Island settlement, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
87 F/10
Submitter
R. McGhee
Date submitted
September 21, 0097
Measured Age
1820 ± 80
Normalized Age
1820 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Neoeskimo, Classic Thule?, anomalous, old; Néoesquimau, Thuléen, anormal, vieux
Context
square F3, in midden in front of House 4, 15-23 cm depth
Additional information
It is assumed that charcoal was the main constituent.
Comments
OdPq-1: In a boggy depression behind coastal cliffs, it consists of four rather small Thule houses. The homogeniety of artifact styles and the sizes of the middens suggest a simple short occupation of relatively early Canadian Thule people. McGhee does not find GaK-1256 acceptable. The sample was closely associated with artifacts and represents cultural debris, and there was no trace of an earlier occupation that could have caused contamination. Acceptance of the date would place Canadian Thule culture earlier in time than the Birnirk stage at Point Barrow, the latter considered ancestral to the Thule complex.

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