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- Lab number
- AA-40854
- Field number
- 00-DCA-036
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (10 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
- 3804 ± 41
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.3
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth in a tent ring with chert flakes, 13 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- ObPj-8 (00-DCA-036): Two Palaeoeskimo features are situated on a medium gravel raised beach at this site, which is just inland of site 28 (ObPj-3). Charcoal was collected from a hearth in the centre of a tent ring which contains chert flakes. The hearth is 90 x 90 cm and the tent ring is 3.8 x 4.1 m.