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Lab number
AA-41506
Field number
00-DCA-135a
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Taxa dated
Salix sp. (259 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
Locality
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
806 ± 39
δ13C (per mil)
-25.2
Significance
Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
Context
external hearth at a Palaeoeskimo site, 9.5 m asl
Additional information
The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
Comments
OdPc-8 (00-DCA-135): This site has four Palaeoeskimo occupation features at 9.5 m elevation on a coarse gravel raised beach: two isolated features and one group of two with an external hearth situated between them. Two samples were collected: 135a (AA-41506), charcoal from the external hearth; 135b, charcoal from a hearth in a midpassage within a gravel tent ring of 3 m diameter located about 100 m north of 135a.

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