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- Lab number
- AA-41507
- Field number
- 00-DCA-144a-1
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (83 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- north of 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
- 2273 ± 74
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.2
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth in the westernmost feature at the 11-11.5 m asl level
- Associated taxa
- Aves
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong local reaction.
- Comments
- OdPc-26 (00-DCA-144): A Palaeoeskimo site includes 52 dwelling features on several levels between 10.5 m and 17 m elevation on coarse raised beach gravel centred around a pond at 12 m elevation, where our field camp was located. Three groups of features occur on three levels at and below the pond in its immediate vicinity: 12 rectangular features (typically 5 x 3.5 m) with midpassages (typically 1 x 3.5 m) at 10.5-11 m elevation spread over about 150 m; 2 similar features at 11-11.5 m adjacent to the east end of the first group; and 3 features at 12 m, including midpassages and a gravel rim tent ring with a midpassage adjacent the east end of the pond. Four samples were collected from this part of the site: 144a (AA-41507), charcoal and bird bone from a hearth in the westernmost feature on level two (11-11.5 m); 144b (AA-41508), charcoal from a hearth in a midpassage in dwelling 8 on level 1 (10.5-11 m) counting from the west end; 144c, burnt and calcined bone from the same hearth (one fragment of about 10 identifiable as seal); and 144d, one caribou/muskox longbone fragment and one seal canine tooth from beneath a flagstone in a well defined tent ring with a probable midpassage just inland of the east end of the pond at 12 m elevation. A caribou drive line, presumably a Thule/historic feature, runs through part of level one and some of the flagstones from the first three dwellings were used in its construction. Several features occur inland of the pond between 12 and 16 m elevation. One sample (144e, AA-41509) was collected from that part of the site, a single Mytilus fragment at 5 cm depth in coarse beach gravel below a hearth-like structure in a tent ring at 13.5 m elevation. A final sample (144f, AA-40584) was collected from beneath boiling stones in a hearth in the middle of a tent ring at 16 m elevation about 150 m west of the pond. Groups of 7 and 10 dwelling features occur at 16-16.5 m elevation in this part of the site, and groups of 2, 1, and 5 features at 17 m.