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- Lab number
- AA-40587
- Field number
- 00-DCA-151a
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (31 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- west of 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
- 4216 ± 51
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.4
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- box hearth with boiling stones in a Paleoeskimo midpassage, 14.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a weak initial reaction.
- Comments
- OdPc-30 (00-DCA-151): This is a Palaeoeskimo site with 5 dwelling features occurs on very coarse beach gravel at 14.5 m elevation. Two samples (151a, charcoal [AA-40587] and 151b, burnt bone) were collected from a box hearth measuring 55 x 60 cm with boiling stones in a midpassage measuring 2.2 x 1.5 m.