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Lab number
GSC-6398
Field number
99-DCA-209b
Material dated
wood; bois
Taxa dated
Picea sp. driftwood (id. by R.J. Mott)
Locality
about 10.5 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
Measured Age
490 ± 60
Normalized Age
510 ± 60
δ13C (per mil)
-24.09
Significance
culture?
Context
wooden artifact, possibly a bow or a deformed snow probe, on the surface of beach gravel, 16.5 m asl
Additional information
The sample was weathered gray, otherwise dry and sound, submitted in field condition.
Comments
NhPl-3 (99-DCA-209): This site is on a raised beach at 16.5 m asl. It contains two distinct gravel-rim tent rings (one measured 3 x 3.9 m) with internal midpassages and one incomplete rectangular feature with hundreds of chert flakes. Two samples were collected at this site: 209a, bird bones from beneath stones and from the base of sod in the rectangular feature; 209b (GSC-6398), an unusual piece of wood (originally driftwood) from the surface about 20 m east of the easternmost tent ring. This is a long slender piece of curved wood (curved length 1.55 m; tip to tip length, 1.1 m; depth of curvature 0.48 m; 2 cm wide and 3-5 mm thick). This piece possibly a bow or a deformed snow probe, presumably contemporaneous with the site.

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