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- Lab number
- AA-40581
- Field number
- 00-DCA-131
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (3 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- Woodward Point, northeast shore of Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/9
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 590 ± 41
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.7
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- isolated hearth situated 4 m from a steep bluff edge, 16 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Aves
- Additional information
- Mainly conifer charcoal, willow selected for dating. The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- OdPc-14 (00-DCA-131): This site has 10 Palaeoeskimo features, mainly midpassages, spread between 15 and 17 m elevation: three groups of 1, 3, and 2 at 15 m; two isloated features at 16 m; another at 16.5 m; and another at 17 m. On the 15 m level are three structures Š a tent ring and two hearths with colourful sandstone and granite cobbles, possibly representing meat, according to Jim Savelle. Charcoal and two feather fragments were collected from an isolated hearth measuring about 50 x 50 cm located 4 m from a steep bluff edge. Also included in the sample is a single fragment of Mytilus collected beneath a flagstone in a midpassage about 30 m from the hearth and at the same level. The age of AA-40581 suggests that either the result is in error due to very small sample size (3 mg) or, more likely, that this isolated hearth is younger than the dwelling features at this site.