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- Lab number
- TO-8532
- Field number
- 99-DCA-160b
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea? and Salix? sp. (137 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- about 10 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
- 2100 ± 60
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- hearth in the fourth living area from the west end of a Dorset longhouse, 7 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- NhPl-1 (99-DCA-160): This longhouse is situated on a raised beach 7 m above high tide and is oriented along the beach about 200 m seaward of a low rock scarp. The house is 17.1 m long, 6.85 m wide at the west end, 6.9 m wide at the east end, and 7.0 m wide at the middle. The midpassage is 2-2.2 m wide. The central hearth row (midpassage) contains 7-10 probable hearths within sod-covered circular probable living areas. The southern stone line contains 4-5 probable hearths and the northern stone line 3 probable hearths. The bone collected in 160a is a long bone fragment of caribou or muskox. Two similar long bone fragments were collected protruding from sod in the midpassage. The sample also contains a fragment of a caribou or muskox molar tooth. Three additional samples were collected from the longhouse on August 4: 160b (TO-8532), charcoal from a hearth in the fourth living area from the west end; 160c, bone from the same hearth; 160d, bone from beneath stones at various locations within the longhouse. Immediately east of the longhouse are at least six tent rings over approximately 50 m, while 15 m to the west is one tent ring. On top of the escarpment approximately 200 m inland from this site are two heavy tent rings and one scattered tent ring with an external hearth; these are probably Thule/early historic Inuit. In July-August 2000, the longhouse was excavated by Peter Whitridge who collected samples AA-41516 and AA-41517.