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Lab number
Beta-88718
Field number
CMC-1473
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus (22.63 g)
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
P. Sutherland
Date submitted
August 10, 0097
Measured Age
1510 ± 30
Normalized Age
1470 ± 30
δ13C (per mil)
-27.1
Significance
Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
Context
feature 2, group 2, partly buried in dwelling feature, 5 cm depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Additional information
AMS date: Oxford.
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).

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