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Canada / NU / NhPk-12 / CAMS-62185
- Lab number
- CAMS-62185
- Field number
- 99-DCA-222a-2
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp., ?Salix sp. (107 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- in the Innirit Hills, about 21 km east of Point Caen, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 D/05
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3700 ± 50
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- isolated Palaeoeskimo hearth, 15.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phoca hispida
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a moderate initial reaction.
- Comments
- NhPk-12: The site consists of features on a two raised beaches. Five Paleoeskimo midpassages and an isolated hearth are spread over 21 m on one beach ridge at 15.5 m above high tide; chert flakes are present but rare. Two beach ridges lower (about 14.5 m aht and 15 m from the isolated hearth) is a heavy boulder tent ring or cache of possible Thule origin. Three samples were collected from the Palaeoeskimo component: 222a-1, bone, including burnt bone, from the isolated hearth; 222a-2 (CAMS-62185), charcoal from same hearth; 222b, ring seal bones, including a baculum, from beneath flagstones in three adjacent midpassages.