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Canada / NU / UcAg-1 (Wood River) / GSC-1770
- Lab number
- GSC-1770
- Material dated
- larch charcoal; charbon de mélèze
- Taxa dated
- Larix sp. (0.6 g, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- on the north side of Wood River, 11.5 m asl, west side of Black Cliffs Bay, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 120 E/05
- Submitter
- G. Hattersley-Smith
- Date submitted
- August 10, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1070 ± 270
- Normalized Age
- 1070 ± 270
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- mainly driftwood, middle of central hearth, with pebbles and charred bone
- Additional information
- NaOH-leach omitted, mixed with dead gas, one 3-day count in 2-L counter.
- Comments
- UcAg-1, Wood River: The site is in gravel, 3 m from the edge of an old river delta terrace and ca. 60 m from the sea. A series of tent rings and midpassage features, it is the most northerly Palaeoeskimo site in Canada. Hattersley-Smith found GSC-1770 later than expected and suggested that the central hearth, a distinctive feature of the Independence culture, persisted to the end of the Dorset period in some areas. The location suggests that Palaeoeskimos crossed the plateau southeast of the Grant Ice Cap from the Lake Hazen area and followed the valley of Wood River to its mouth, thus by-passing the Robeson Channel coast (Hattersley-Smith, 1973).