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- Lab number
- AA-40591
- Field number
- 00-DCA-188b
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (75 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- Page Point, north-central shore of Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 4557 ± 45
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.1
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth with boiling stones in a gravel rim tent ring, 16 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- OdPe-9 (00-DCA-188): This site contains 58 Palaeoeskimo dwelling features on coarse beach gravel, on 6 beach levels between 12 and 16 m elevation. Two samples were collected: 188a, burnt and unburnt bones (separate containers) from 2-10 cm depth in a hearth in the centre of a midpassage at the east end of the site at 13.5 m elevation; 188b (AA-40591), charcoal from a hearth with boiling stones in a gravel rim tent ring near the northwest end of the site at 16 m elevation.