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- Lab number
- AA-40862
- Field number
- 00-DCA-160
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (110 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- about 15 km west of Page Point, north-central shore of Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/11
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3391 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.2
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth in a Palaeoeskimo midpassage, 0-2.5 cm depth, 11.5 m asl
- Additional information
- Salix and conifer charcoal present, Salix selecting for dating. The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- OePf-4 (00-DCA-160): This site contains 5 Palaeoeskimo dwellings on medium beach gravel, three isolated features and one group of two. Charcoal was collected from 0-2.5 cm in a hearth measuring 45 x 40 cm in a midpassage measuring 3.7 x 1.4 m. Five Thule tent rings also occur here, four of these on a low alluvial terrace.