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- Lab number
- GSC-6580
- Field number
- 99-DCA-219
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea? sp. driftwood (13 g, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- in the Innirit Hills, about 17.5 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
- 320 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 300 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Context
- scraps of wood from a komatik on the surface of beach gravel, 5-10 m asl
- Additional information
- Surface and wood along cracks removed, revealing light yellowish brown wood, cut into splinters to check for contaminants.
- Comments
- NhPk-9 (99-DCA-219): A disintegrated komatik constructed from driftwood was lying on the surface of beach gravel spread over an area of about 10 x 10 m. Both runners and six slats are preserved. The longest runner is 181 cm x 16 cm x 4.5 cm. It has 10 rectangular gouged holes for lashing cross slats. The six slats measure in length: 70, 69.5, 67.5, 69.5, 70.5, 73.0 cm (the last is also the widest board). There is also a long, slender piece of wood (possibly a harpoon shaft, spear, or snow probe). Weathered scraps of wood from the komatik were collected for dating. The komatik probably relates to the major regional Thule site 99-DCA-181 (NhPk-2) about 1 km the the east.