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- Lab number
- AA-40850
- Field number
- 00-DCA-030b
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (6 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- north-central coast of Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/5
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3973 ± 42
- δ13C (per mil)
- -24.7
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- westernmost of three isolated hearths, 13 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a moderate initial reaction.
- Comments
- ObPj-5 (00-DCA-030): Thirteen Palaeoeskimo features are situated on a coarse gravel raised beach at this site. These are gravel tent rings with central concentrations of boiling stones. The site begins at the edge of an alluvial fan and extends westward. Charcoal (AA-41498) and one fragment of burnt bone were collected from a hearth with boiling stones in a tent ring 30 m from the east end of the site, from the fifth feature from that end. The gravel tent ring measures 3.7 x 3.3 m, outside dimension. The hearth scatter is 1.1 x 1 m. Three isolated hearths with boiling stones occur 1 m above the main site (13 m asl). Charcoal (30b, AA-40850) was collected from the westernmost of these, which measures 1.3 x 1.35 cm.