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Canada / NU / KkLn-4 (Migod) / GSC-2152
- Lab number
- GSC-2152
- Field number
- CMC- 791
- Material dated
- willow charcoal; charbon de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- on the east bank of Dubawnt River at outlet of Grant Lake, 200 m asl, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 65 N/09
- Submitter
- B.C. Gordon
- Date submitted
- September 1, 0097
- Measured Age
- 5480 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 5480 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 5
- Context
- sand, 8N/4E, Level 5, lowest level in southwest trench
- Comments
- KkLn-4, Migod: The site, with nine levels and sublevels, contains evidence of late Palaeoindian, Shield Archaic, Palaeoeskimo, Taltheilei, and Late Prehistoric Chipewyan occupations. GSC-2152 provides an estimate of the final melting of the Keewatin Ice Divide.