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Lab number
TO-8536
Field number
99-DCA-181c
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Taxa dated
Picea sp. driftwood (220 mg, 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
Normalized Age
1100 ± 60
Significance
Neoeskimo, Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
Context
hearth inside a heavy boulder tent ring, 3.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phoca hispida; Aves, Anserini
Additional information
The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
Comments
NhPk-2 (99-DCA-181): This is a major Thule culture site with kayak, umiak, or komatik rests. It probably represents two or more Thule culture occupations. The following samples were collected from a single heavy tent ring at 3.5 m above high tide on the ninth beach ridge: 181a, ring seal bone from an internal meat cache; 181b, bird bone (goose) from same cache; 181c (TO-8536), charcoal, burnt wood and wood chips from the hearth; 181d, goose bones (much of one bird) from same hearth, not burnt, possibly boiled; 181e, ring seal bones, including a few burnt fragments, from same hearth. Four beach ridges lower (on ridge 5), at 2.25 m elevation, are three younger looking heavy tent rings. Two samples were collected from the middle ring: 181f, charcoal and wood from two small hearths that touch eachother; 181g, burnt bone from same hearths. The site consists of one qarmat-like structure approximately 4 x 6 m at the west end of the site. Approximately 200 m farther east and along about 150 m are 10+ heavy tent rings, two kayak/sled supports, two semicircular windbreaks(?), and 3+ boulder caches, all at about 3.5 m elevation. Immediately shoreward at 2.25 m are three additional heavy tent rings.

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