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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.