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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.