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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.