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- Lab number
- AA-41510
- Field number
- 00-DCA-149a
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (86 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- west of Woodward Point, northeast shore of Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 2804 ± 45
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.1
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth in the easternmost tent ring, 10 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a vigorous initial reaction.
- Comments
- OdPd-17 (00-DCA-149): This is a Palaeoeskimo site with 8 dwelling features, in groups of 3 and 5 separated by about 75 m, on medium beach gravel at 10 m elevation. Two samples (149a, charcoal [AA-41510] and 149b, burnt bone) were collected from a hearth in the easternmost tent ring in the eastern part of the site where 5 features are spread over 30 m.