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Lab number
GSC-6346
Field number
98-DCA-020a
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Taxa dated
Picea and Salix sp. driftwood? (id. by R.J. Mott)
Locality
about 9 km east-northeast of Cape Baring, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
87 F/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
Date submitted
February 26, 2002
Measured Age
670 ± 50
Normalized Age
650 ± 50
δ13C (per mil)
-26.33
Significance
Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
Context
hearth at the east end of a Palaeoeskimo mid-passage structure, 9.5 m asl
Comments
OaPp-? (98-DCA-020): A small piece of driftwood (sample 20) was collected from an ice-wedge trough on a coarse gravel raised beach. The wood occurred 10 m from a Palaeoeskimo mid-passage structure at the same elevation. The structure measures 3.9 x 1.1 m and consists of a central hearth and two end hearths. The hearth at the east end contains charcoal just under the hearth-floor slab. This was collected as sample 20a. In light of the proximity of the wood to the archaeological site, the wood may have been moved by people, though there is no direct evidence (e.g., cut marks, charring) that it was. However, inasmuch as virtually all natural driftwood in this region is not embedded, the wood may be in situ. A comparison of wood and charcoal ages would help establish whether wood near Palaeoeskimo sites probably respesents wood collected by the occupants and would establish the age of occupation of the 9.5 m beach level.

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