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- Lab number
- AA-40575
- Field number
- 00-DCA-021a
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (96 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- north-central coast of Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/4
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3945 ± 42
- δ13C (per mil)
- -24.7
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- beneath boiling stones in a box hearth in a midpassage without a tent ring, 12.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a moderate initial reaction.
- Comments
- ObPk-7 (00-DCA-021): A total of 17 Palaeoeskimo features are situated on a gravel raised beaches on two levels at this site. Two groups of 6 and 8 features are located on the 12.5 m level, and 3 features are on the 10.5 m level. Two samples were collected from a box hearth in a midpassage without a tent ring: 21a (AA-40575), charcoal from beneath boiling stones; and 21b (AA-41497), Mytilus edulis fragments from the top of the underlying beach gravel. The box hearth has vertical sides and lies within a midpassage measuring 2.8 x 0.55 m. There are at least two chert flakes in this feature.